Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-12-12

Under this treaty this line was run and
marked in the year 1918 by John Sullivan;
and the monument erected at its termina-
ton on the banks of the Mississippi, near
the head Of Rock Island, was standing but
a few years ago.
Serenth-An act to provide for the ia
king of certain observations preparatory to
the adjustment of the northern boundary
line of the state of Ohio, passed July IA,
1882. The President is required to ascer-
tain by observation, the point in the Mis-
sissippi which is due west from the south
erly extreme of lake Michigan
Eighh-The official report Of Captain
Talcott. Of the U. S. engineers, dated jan
uary II, 1884 He states that, from his
observations, the southern bend Of Lake
Michigan is in latitude forly-one degrees
and thirty seven minutes. And that due
west line from this point will in,ersect The
Mississippi river about sepsn miles north of
the fort on Rock Island He erected mon
uments to mark each Of these stations.
| unite with the assembly, therefore, in
claiming. for the southern boundary Of this
state, line drawn due west from the SOU
;herly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan
TO the Mississippi river, because it was
fixed and established by the ordinance Of
1887, in an article which it is declared
shall forever remain unalterable, unless
by common consent;' and because the peo-
pie of this state have never given their con-
sent to the alteration attempted to be made
by Congress and the people of the territory
Of Illinois.
Whether the inhabitants Of the district
of country, which was placed by congress
under the jurisdiction Of Michigan, and
which lies west Of line drawn from the
northern extremity of lake Michigan, have
not the right to vote with US for or against
the formation Of state government, is
question Of great importance, and to which
invite your attention. Michigan asserted
her claim to this line. as her true boundary,
on several occasions; particularly when
she opposed the passage by congress of the
act to establish the territorial government
of Huron, and when she defined her own
limits as state, in the act under which she
formed her constitution. Her own argu-
ments and concessions are considered very
conclusive upon this point.
This subject was presented to the assem-
with the act passed bv her legislature on
the 10Th of anuary, 1896. In that message
| remarked: 1t is as certained that pari
of the western boundary Of the state of Mi
chigan, as prescribed by the act Of con-
gress Of the 18th Of June, 1886, is an inn
practicable line, there being no such natu-
raj boundary as therein described The
Lake Of the Desert cod Plantation Lake, J
does not discharge its waters into the Mon
treal river. 1t having therefore become
necessary to designate new line, avail
myself of the occasion to present the sub
ject 10 the notice Of the assembly, that such
measures as are proper may be adopted, to
procure the recognition by the government
Of the United States of the boundary which
was established between Michigan and
Wisconsin in the year 1905
In the year 1923 bill was reported in
the House of Representatives of the United
States to establish the territorial govern
ment Of Huron. The territory was boun-
ded on the south by the waters Of Illinois.
and Missouri, and eastwardIy by line
drawn through Lake Michigan and the
straits Of Mackinaw TO the southern extre-
nifty Of Bots Blanc Island in Lake Huron :,
and thence due east, across that lake to
the boundary of the United States. The
same bill was again reported ct having
failed to pass both houses Of Congress) in
1929, 1880 and 1882. A report was made
by the committee. with the bill, in the lat
ter year, from which make the following
extract:
This committee are Of opinion that the
limits of the territory of Michigan, as
originally separated from the then India ma
territory ought, upon every fair and just
principle, to be preserved to its present
population, SO as to enable them 10 emerge
as early as possible, into the condition Of
an Independent state Of the Union. The
: committee therefore recommended that, in
a severance of the present territory of Mi
! chigan, the oldest and most populous por-
, ton should be lief: under its original limits
and that the integrity Of its bounds should
be preserved by lire drawn through the
lake to its northern extremity, and thence
: by line drawn due north to the northern
boundary Of the United States; and with
this division and separation of the new ter
r'ory from every point of Lake Huron,
they also propose the adoption for it Of the
r name of Wisconsin, instead Of that of HUI
ron, as heretofore contemplated
Governor CAss, in a message to the
; Council on the 9th Of January. 1881, had
5 presented the consideration OF this meas
ure, in the following language:
San effort has been made to dctach the
counties of Mchilimackinac and Chippewa.
from the Peninsular Territory land, TO annex
them to the new government.which is ask
e dior the west of Lake Michigan Such
measure would be equally injurious TO our
rights, and subversve our interests The
act Of Congress Of January ii, 1905. estab
fishing this territory, defined it boundaries,
and guaranteed TO the inhabitants then living,
or who might thereafter live, within them,
: many political rights dear to the American
people, and without the enjoyment OF which,
our citizens would never encounter the diff
, ficulties and hardship incident to The set
Element of new country. Among these
not the least important,is the right of ad-
mission into the Union, when our popula-
ton shall equal the number prescribed in
the ordinance Of Congress July l3,l7o7,