Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-05-31

reference 10 the facts will prove. So,
extent Of tersSesy, raises no question.
But le, US take more striking view Of
this subject. l. Let us examine the true
merits Of the conflicting divisions propos-
ed, and Sue how far the ends of justice
will really demand the boundarie here
sought to be established. The people, far
away to the northwest, deservs to be we'll
understood in matter 80 vitality affect
ing them, and they only ask 10 be heard
in their deieaee. With them, one opin-
ion, one voice, one feeling, prevails in
regard 10 it, and that is, to fix The west
ern line Of Wisconsin through that mis-
cradle, impossible, hou$eless, barren waste
Of land, of more than 40 miles in width,
between the. 44ih & 46,h degree Of north
latitude, as the same is n'urked out upon
the map. Not solitary road, trail, or
pathway, is, or can ever be, made across
it, nor can human being travel over
much Of the distance, except 10 canoes.
1t is utterly uninhabitable, not even All
Indian hut uponit. (See General Jones's
report as surveyor general Of Wisconsin,
Of 1916, Tx. Doc. No. e.. also report OF
DR.. D. D. Owen, Of the Geological Corps.
Add to this the great and insurnountablc
difficulty ofthe Mississippi and its tribu-
! taries, being for four Or five months OF
the year SO completely blocked up with
ice as effeclualIy to prevent all possible
intercommunicatio with the people be-
low. And how, let it here be asked, can
they contrive, in the face Of such mighty
barriers, ever to reach the capital Of Wis
cousin? How could they, if required,
meet the commands Of State authority, or
how attend to the ordinary business rela-
tons Of the country in connection with
their Government? Thus cut off, effec-
tualIy and rrevocably, by fixed boun-
dairy, so repulsive 70 their just rights,
and 80 uncongenal 10 their interests and
feelings, they will be left in pitiui pre-
dicament; while, should the eastern line
be fixed as the boundary-a line that ma
nature seems to have established as the
proper one-the new Territory Of the
northwest will soon begin to take its on
ward career, und to feel the true invigo,
rating spirit Of a busy and thriving pop.
alton.
As an evidence that the proposed line
fully meets the wishes and feelings OF
the people Of that region, reference need
only be had to the proceedings Of Il con
vention which assembled in January last
in S.. Crox county. \ copy Of these
proceedings was duly forwarded 10 Hon,
1 r>ft t~
the late venerable John Quincy Adams
Of the House. They may be found in the
committee rooms of the TWO Houses
Great feeling was there manifested Nor
is it 10 be at all wondered az. The Con
gress line would cut St. Croix directly in
to two parts, unnecessarily embarrassing
all their business, unnerving the arm OF
industry, and pros,r rating all their high
hopes OF successful enterprise and trade
A great lumber business is there most
proii.ably carried on. That beautiful
country is nterspersed with a stately
growth OF the best white pine timber
| Immense forests OF it there abound; the
gross annual receipts for which, when
sold, amount 10 little shor; Of Il million OF
dollars. And if such is the present pro,
duct Of northern Wisconsin, what may
not tho succeeding twenty years disclose
Many of the statistical facts connected
with the commercial and geological hiSto.
| ry OF that country may be gathered from
the various scientific and o:her reports to
be found III the public documents of the
several departments; also the two reports
of BrowneIl and Ilolcombe. and the Sec.
ond volume Of Executive Documents OF
the thirteth Congress, may each bo pro-
fi,abIy referred 10 on this subject of the
suggested boundary, and the arguments
sustaining it.
Respectfully but earnestly urging the
deliberate examination Of this subject, i,
only remains TO present the line we pro
pose, which is this: "Beginning in the
channel Of the Mississippi south Of the
highest peak of Mountain Island, which,
according ,c Nicolc''s map, bout where
the 44;h degree Of latitude crosses the
Mississippi; thence due north half de.
gree; thence in direct line northeasler +.
y 10 the head waters at tho same place
as marked upon the survey made by Cap
tain Cram; thence down the main chan.
mel Of Montreal river 10 the middle oil
Lake Superior"
WASHINGTON CRY, April go, l848.