The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-03
PR0Cl ANA TON

PR0CL AVIATION
BH THE GovERNoR OF Iowa TlRRIToRY,
ii. reply tofhe Proclamation Of the Coz
e,no,' Of the State Of Missouri, Of Tie
Fl 231of august 1889. Il
wv HEREAS, document has recent
V ~ appeared in the public prints
bearing the name Of the Governor Of the
State Of Missouri, and purporting to be
proclamation issued by him under the
seal Of the said State, and bearing date the
23d day of August, 1886. in which docu-
ment the Governor of Missouri after tax
ing super cial view of my Proclamation
ofthe 29th of July last, enters into la
boured effort to impress upon the public /
mind the belief, that the public authori
ties of the Territory of Iowa are attempt.
ing an encroachment upon the jurisdiction
of the State of Missouri, and are DESTROYS
Of extending their jurisdiction within the
rightfuI boundaries Of that State: with a
view to remove ERRONEOUS impressions by
acing the facts before the citizens of the
United States, as they really exist. Ihave
deemed it my duty to enter into a public
examination of the reclamation of the 4
Governor Of Missouri and to present to
the consideration of the citi ems of the
United States, such facts as must convince
every unprecedented mind that it is the
State Of Missouri that is aiming at an ex-
tension of jurisdiction, and that the au-
thorities of the Territory of Iowa are on
y exercising Jurisdiction to the line that
has, from the organization of the State of
Missouri till within a very recent period,
been acknowledged by that state as her
northern boundary line; and which line
has been regarded by sundry acts of Con-
gress and Indian teaties as the northern
boundary Of MISSOURI and to which line,
the Territory of Wisconsin, previous to
the division oi the Territory, and SUISSE
quenly the Territory of Iowa, have al.
ways, under the authority Of the United
States, exercised an uncontrolled jurisdic.
, ton.
In taking view ofsthe subject, I deem
it improper to enter into general discus
sion Of the boundary question, as that is
matter that rests entirely between the
! United >tates and the State of Missouri.
: BY the 9TH article of the constitution of
the United States, Congress has the ,ow-
:. er to dispose of and make all needful rules
and regulations respecting the territory,
] and other property of the United states.
. On the 18th OF .Jnne, 1858. Congress pas
sed Gan act to authorize the President OF
! the United States to cause the southern
boundary line of the erritory of Iowa to
e be ascertained and marked. - ommis.
4 sioners were appointed under the provis
: ions Of this act (Missouri declining on
:, her part to appoint commissioner and
have made report to Congress on the sub.
ject, which report now awaits the hna
: decision of that body, who, alone, has the
f constitutional right to decide the question:
: and to settle definitely the southern boun
Diary Of this Territory. With its decls
. ion the authorities of Iowa will be sa,isf
ed; but until this decision is made, the
Territory of Iowa, acting under the au
n thorisy Of the United states, can acknowl
/ edge no other boundary line than the ons
r. to which the jurisdiction Of the Unite,
States, through their Territorial o,cers
has ever been exercised, from the time the
country west of the Mississippi river ant
J. north of the state of MISSOURI, were BY ar
e Of Congress attached to the Territory
r-of Michigan for judicial purposes, unit
!, the present time.
will now examine the claims of Mis-
= souri, as set forth by the Governor in hi:
'r proclamation, and compare them will
sundry official documents; and appeal tc
the calm tribunal of put1ic opinion to de
termine whether it is not the etaie of Ms
: fsoatri that is ATTEMPTING an e,asroachmen
upon The Territory Of lie United Stai, 5
i rather than the United States, through
le their Territorial authorities, upon The
is rights Of that State.
at The Governor Of Missouri, after BOIL
: assertion, ''thal the Territory of Iowa is
e. now seeking to extend an unwarrantable
and unauthorized jurisdiction over por
to ton of territory which, by the term of ad
!, mission of the State of Missouri into tht
confederacy, has been, and still is, sub
: jecl to the authority Of that State" pro
ceeds as follows, to wit:
"Whereas, by an act Of the Congress
10 Of the United States, entitled .san act t
4 authorize the people of the Missouri Ter
!, rtory to form constitution and Stat
: Government and for the admission {
err such State into the Union, on an equs
ID footing with the original States. and I
u-I prohibit slavery i'll certain territories,
! approved March 6, 1920, the rrilory I
the State Of Missouri has been set forth
T. prescribed, and forever coded by the I'm
e, ted States to said tate as the same is dc
h. G AIRED to be included within the followin
al boundaries to wit.-.'Beginning in III
middle of the Mississippi river on the p;
rallel Of 81 degrees Of north latilud,
,,s thence west along that parallel Of latitud
! TO the St. Francois river, thence up an
l'e following the course of that river in til
nd middle of the main channel thereof to ii
parallel Of latitude of thirty-six degree
8gE 4 and thirty minutes tf,onoo ,.oct ,lorr. ~