Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-11
Oregon.
DEPARrMENr OF STATE, !
ton CitY, March %. 1917. {


ure for Oregon, the President has instruc.
al ed me to communicate to you his views
in regard to that territory, so that you may
hEiinake them known to IFS Inhabitants. He
deem you suitable agent for this purpose.
as you are now an officer of the United.
q States, having been commissioned Deputy
Postmaster at Astoria. ,.s 1ail 9 10
es'h" The President deeply regrets that Con,
-!OYgress did not, at their last session, enact
law establishing territorial govern.
lnent in Oregon. A bill for this purpose
passed the House of Representatives on
the 10Th JANUARY last by a vote of 1873
to 81. Ii failed mihe Senate, not, as /
am firmly convinced, from any want of
disposition on the part OF the majority to
@aprOvide4a government for that interest.
ing portion Of the Republic; but because
other urgent and important business con.
nected with the Mexican war did not al.
low the necessary time, before the close
OF their short session, to discuss and per-
, feet its details. For this reason alone,
it was laid upon the table onthe day that
Congress finally adjourned.
1t is the intention of the President, in
his message to Congress in December
"a, regard to Oregon contained in bis last
annual message. Nodoubts is entertain
ed that Congress WILL at an early period
after their meeting, create O territorial
government for Otegon: extend over it
our laws relating to trade and intercourse
with the Indian tribes; establish custom.
houses;and make liberal grants of land to
those bold and patriotic pioneers who,
amid great privationS and dangers, have
established their settlements upon the
soil.
An earnest of this is afforded by the
recent act carrying into effect the recon-
smentations of the President so faI as re-
CARDS the extension of our Post Office
laws and the grant of mail facilities to our
tellOw-ctiZens in Oregon. This will
appear from a certified copy, now furnish.
ed totyou, Of part ofthe first section, and
of the second, sixth, and seventh sections
ofthe act, approved the Sd March, 1647,
"to establish certain post routs and for
other purposes" lam authorized by the
Postmaster General to assure you that all
1.-The revislons contained in these sections
will be carried into effect with as little
deIaya as possible. ..r
Thus you will perceive that the means
have already been provided for the con-
veyance ofpubIic Information and private
correspondence amongst our citizens in
Oregon themselves, and between them
oIand the citizens of our States andTerrjto.
ries east of the Rocky Mountains. ..
Besides, the late Congress, at their
first session, by the act of 9th May, I84f
provided for the raising regiment o.
mounted rifemen for the express purpose
of afording secure passage through the
Intervening Indian territory to emigrants
Ontheir way to Oregon, and for the es,
Establishment of military posts along the
route for their protection.
sts The, people OF Oregon may rest assured
that the Government and the people o.
the United States will never abandon
them, or prove unmindtul of their wei
fare We have given sufficient pledge
OF this determination by the zeal and firm
mess with which, throughout quarter O
a century, our Just lights to that territory
was steadtastly maintained against the
claims of Great Britain, until at last the
question was finally adjusted between
the two Powers by the treaty of June
.1S46.l The treaty has secured to US the
whole territory on the continent south o
the parallel OF 40, and this we shall neve
abandon.
We feel the deepest interest in thu
prosperity OF the people ofOregon. Thei
brethern on this side of the Rocky Noun
tains regard them with affection and Will
s. hope. We can perceive, in the no dis
tantfuture, one or more glorious States o
, this Cunfederacy springing into existence
On the shores Of the Northern Pacific
States composed Of our own kindred-o
apeople speaking our own language
governed by institutions similar 10 thos
which secure our own happin ess, an
extending the blessings ofrelig; o. liberty
and law over that vast region. Thei
commerce. and intercourse with the othe
States of the Union will confer mutua
benefits on all parties concerned, an
will bind them to US, and us to them, Il
bonds of reciprocal interest and affectio
more durable than adamant. Science ha
discovered and enterprise is now fast es
tabishing, means of intercOmmunicatio
so rapid that at no distant day iourne
from New York TO Oregon will be accom-
pIished inless time than was once en-
ployed in travelling from that city to Ne
Orleans, and important news will be con
munieatedeby telegraph with the veloci
of Fighting. Their foreign commerce vii
the west coast of Africa, with Asia al
the ls'es oFthe Pacific, will sail under Ii
Pfoieetlon of our common fag,and cam
4nsl to Hnn- ho1i IN f. r..