Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-03-01

s02LLNCr0Ns saturday, Man. !. rsa.
Aetasaeion 81 onr state HON nda
knee-sOeep0flmemt Of Terrifmr,
-Aa0asston tnso the Union.
An examination Of the sketch Of Con
ersss'onai proceedings given in anoshe
postisn Of our paper will show, that In
b'n - the admission Of Iowa a Stat
- passed The House Of Representative
y a slnost unanimous vote. This /.
sesu'f we have all along anticipated; bu
our admission is accompanied " ilh condi
eons and restrictions which we did M
sroe'Pate, and the imposition Of which
eandor eompels US 10 say, takes ava,
much if not all the qualification we SUP
posed 10 be in reserve for ms upon ,he &C
easion Of breaking to the public the intel
lgence e the recognition of Iowa BY IN,
general government as an Independent
seveSrigu1y. We alfude, of course, to Oh,
aitssaiisae made in our boundaries. b,
which ~ are reduced to about two
thirds The number Of square miles callet
sor IN the constitution, and are entirel,
cut OF from the Missouri and St. Peter,
rivers, and curtailed Of about $50 mile.
frsni On the Mississippi.
Whsteser the motive which influenced
The adoption Of the boundaries agreed up.
on in the House, the effect, in ever,
sense in which It can be viewed, canno,
but b blighiipg and disastrous upon on,
permanent interests, and 90 must be on all
hands regarded. We had a right TO ex.
pec, in designating the lines Of our State
not 10 Re cut of from the benefit of the
liberal and just policy heretofore prac-
eced upon in relation 10 all frontier States,
especially as the evils Of that policy ha, e
yet TO Be made apparent; and the pas,
history Il The government also authorised
me belief that on this subject some weigh.
would Be given-as in justice it should
to The wishes and representation of the
inhabiisnfs Il the proposed State, who DOS
sess better knowledge Of the confieura-
10 and resources Of the country than
members OF Congress possibly can do, and
who. also, have . far deeper stake in its
proper division and organization. The
opposite Of ell this, however, would seem
= g the facti for but . few days after the
passage Of = bill through the House TO an
nex territory enough on the South to make
Ave or six States, and also one to organ
re an Empire On the West, we have pre-
sented, 10 this same House, the strange
specsacle Of large majority voting to cur
aaa our young border State Of much of il.
proportions, assigning no other reason for
90 doing than that the lines called for in
our constitution embraced too great an ex-
tent of territory! To effect thi.-ton IL
-s~ ss-sy go s-s,~si-sstU fnasa.---
and underlined boundaries for natural ones.
4 me same time leaving the country Of
which we have been despoiled without
government or laws, aud booming it to saw
age occupancy for perhaps thrice the num-
Der Of years it would have been thus in
hah'ted had our state jurisdiction been ex-
tended over il.
10 The course Of the debate we see it
Pas assumed BY the advocates Of mutila-
hon that the boundary Of the convention
embraced an area Of $4,000 square miles;
but Ills, we spprehend, is an exarrera-
ion. Missouri, On map now subject to
'ur sxamina1sen, Is Get down At Ga ooo
'qtnse miles; and yet . glance will be
70 convince any one that it is
asger than Iowa, when surrounded BY her
lines. Virginia, too, j.
Argsr; Michigan about the same. and
Alabama and Georgia but little less. In
intent, therefore, the boundaries asked
or ty ~ are not unreasonable, but more |
:'rcumscribed than those of several Of the
~ States; while, according to the lines
sharA the House Of Representatives h..
'esn paessed to substitute and establish.
nd which will, there is scarcely room for
'oubt b concurred in by the Senate.
owa-she great State that scas to be-will
onaain less number Of square miles than
ny Of her western sisters, and, in point
{ aise, will rank as the sixteenth State Of
- Cnion!. A beautiful contamination
~, iadesd, after all our high wrought
nd fsnciful visions and predictions in re-
don 70 the might, ant; power, and wealth,
our embryo State, and the brilliant ca
'er supposed 10 be in reserve for her.
Our citizens cannot-nsusf nof-wr,.
er-sccept these boundaries. To do 90 /
ould Be madness, and worse than mad
- Mcises Of interest. state pride, and
just estimate Of what is due to them as a
sopIs. md what Is essential to their sue
- under : Stale government, all call npon
- T. reject them, even II, BY 20 doing,
- should reject the Constitution. SUP
's5ng, sr arguments sake, that we should .
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