Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-11-15

suitable point on The Upper Mississippi, in
!, advance of our most exposed settlements. Two
, lkuaifed noua,sd t.oeps, under the command of a
Geld officer, would be sufcient to range the coun.
Try fran the Mississippi 70 the Red Cedar, Iowa
aad Des afsiAss rivers This movenen, of troop.
would De direct check ON the Indians who nigh,
be gagged in war with each other. Mounted
teees, ranging the country east Of the Mississippi
aad south OF the Wisconsin river to Fort Winnie
eago would prevent the frequent ncursions of the
Indians upon the weak and unprotected settlements
bordering Oh that frontier. l recommend. there
FORE. tiai memorial be addressed to the War De-
fpartn.nE. requesting 10 have mounted force post
ed in advance OF the frontier settlements, as early
ii the next spring season as the gass will sustain
ina horses. The Indians on the borders of the from
tier settlements mus, and feel. if Necessary,
the Power OF the Government to enforce A strict
observance of tfeatias between them; and the pre-
sence of mounted troops viii produce that dread
ia the miads Of the Indians, which is necessary for
the growth ami prospsfi: Of the Territory as well
/ as ITO safety and security ofthe inhabitants.
i The adjustment of the boundary line between
tis State OF Missouri arG this Territory has recent
~ become suhJec: of much nteres, TO the citizens
4 residing in the southern part of Wisconsin,. By
the OF Congress of 90 the limits of the State
Of Missouri were dehaad; and it was well under
stood by the members of the Convention who form
ed the constitution of tat State, ssthat the rapids
OF the fiTer Des Moines'' were the rapids on the
Mississippi, near the mouth of that river, known
In 1920. as the DIS. .sfoiaes rirer ,apiis, or Tie
rapids 81 tie ricer Des .1oiss; and the upper rap
ids OIL the Mississippi were known by name OF the
hoek rirer rapids. !, cannot be possible that the
act of Congress, above alluded to. defining the
Mortimer boundary OF the State of Missouri, intend
ed to make the starting point for that boundary
any rapids in the river Des Moines-Decause, it is
TACT. well known, that there are rapids and swift
running waters the Des MONIES rivsr. for more
than one hundred miles above lis NOUN because
IN 1922 there was, it is believed, no place On thu
Das Mones river, known or designated as the rap
ids Of tue rirer De, .Woinss; and, because il
the general understanding in Congress among the
members of the Convention framing the Costitution
of the State of Missouri, and among all who
acquainted at that period with the names and To-
calties OF this country, that the rapids Of the rlcef
Les .uoines, meant the rapids in the Mississippi,
terminating near the mouth ofthe rive Des Moines.
Iha; this was the understanding even in 1924, is
shown by the treaty made on the fourth OF August
of that We r, with the Sac and Fox tribes of In
dams. In that treaty tie northwestern corner of
the State OF Missouri was fixed al hundred
4 miles due north eftne mouth of Kansas river; and
a purchase of all the lands which the "Sac and Fox
tribes have claim within the limits of the State
! OF Missouri" betwsenth the Mississippi and Missou
RI rivers, was limited the north by line drawn
du7 east from that NORTHWESTERN corner to the Mis-
! sissIppi river, reserging however the snaH tract
Of land" between the rivers Des MONIES and Mis-
siasppi and the section of that line between those
rivers for the use of the halfbreeds belonging to
those nations.-ifit could have been imagined, ut
the time of the ratification of that treaty by the
Senate of tho United States, that the northern
boundary of Missouri was not fixed and known as
then designated and laid down, but waste be here
after determined by explorers and surveyors sent
to search for rapids on the river Des MONIES as far
north on that river as they might be found, it is
hardly probable thatth Senators in Congress from
Missouri ut that time, known to have been yiglant
IL TIE discharge of their duties to their constitu-
nets, could have silently acquiesced in the ratca
lion OF this treaty in its present shape. Fsom the
express wording OF the act of Congress desgn atng
the boundaries OF tho State of Missouri that State
/ can have no professions to claim any part of the
tact OF country lying east northeast of the Des
Mones river. 1t is altogether a subject of great
interest to the citizens of our Territory residing
near the boundary line in question, and it would
seem to me necessary, that Commissioners OH the
part OF the General Government should be appoint-
ed to acl with Commissioners on the part of Mis-
souri, 10 define as early possible the true boun-
| Diary line between this Territory and the State of
Missouri. 1t would certainly be an unpleasant
state of thing ol the constituted authorities ofths
Territory, to como into collision with those Of the
State of Missouri SO far, however as il rests with
me no entertainments OH the rights Of our citizens
will be permitted, without resistance. recommend
the early action of the Legislative Assembly on
this important subject; they will have the hearty
co-opcraton of on, able and faithful Delegate in
Congress, who, am confident, will use every ex-
erton IN ms power to maintain the rights of our
citizens.
BY the fourth section Of the organic law of the
Territory, it is namedtho duty Of the Legislative
Assembly to apportoh thu representation ofthe sew
eral counties to the council and House RepreseN-
tatves according to population. As the term for
which the members ofths House of Representatives
have been elected, will expire before the next an
lual meeting, tina action Of the Legislative Assem-
bly, will be necessary that subject during their
present SESSION.
would respectfully call tho attention of the
Legislative Assembly to the propriety of passing
law for the levying and collecting county tax for
the purpose Of erecting goals in each OF tho orga-
nized countries in this Territory, (vhere goals
may berequred,) for the safekcepng OF prisoners,
who may be committed to the shefiffsofthe several
countries. The due ADMINISTRATION Of the laws re-
quires that courts Of justice should have il in their
power 10 restrain the vicious part Of the commune
| " who set laws at defiance.
HENRY DODGE
BuRLINGToS, Nov. I, 1897.
/ tTln no town in tho western country, during
the past season of pressure and Distress If we NAV
judge from the casual remarks of strangers who Vi
sit US, and from newspaper reports, has the march
Of improvement been stayed 90 little as in this
place. In Chicago and Milwaukee, and indeed,
in nearly all of the towns along the lake, have
building operations bsen totally suspended. Here,
! buldinge have been and are sprnging up on every
side--and soon, in size, population, and business,
will Green Bay, fher citizens are but true to them