Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-24
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! as it retains the territorial form Of government
| leaving it to the people of such territor,.
| when they have attained to condition which
entities them to admission as State, to decide
for themselves tl,c question of the allowance. .Y
| prohibition ef domestic slavery. The commit
believe that they express the anxious desireof
an immense majority of the people of the Uni.
| ted States, when they declare that it is hirh
| time that good feeling harmony, and fraternal
hentiments should be again revived, and that
the Government should be able once more to
proceed in its great operations to promote the
| happiness and prosperity Of the country undis:-
! turbed by this distractng cause.
| AS for California, fac from feeling her sensi.,
| bility effected by her being associated with 9th
| er kindred dmeasures--she ought to rejoice and
bohighly gratified that, in entering into the
Union; she may have contributed TO the tran.
guilty and happiness of the great family of
States, of which it is to be hoped, she may ono
day be distinguished member.
The committee beg leave next to report on
the subject of the Northern and Western boun.
Diary of Texas On that question great diver
sity ofopinion has prevailed. According to one
view of the Western limit of Texas was the
Nucccs according to another, it extended to
the Rio Grande, and stretched from its moutl,
to its sc,,rce. Il majority of the COMMITTEES
having come to the conclusion ofyccommcnding
an amicable adjustment of the boundary with
~ xas, abstain from expressing any opinion as
to the true and legitimate Western and North
crn boundary of that State. The terms pro-
posed for such an adjustment are contained in
the bill herewith reported, and they are with
inconsiderable variation, the same as that re-
ported by the Committee on Territories.
according to these terms, it is proposed 20
Texas that her boundary be recognised to the
Rio Grande, and up that river to the point com
monty called Eel Paso, and running thence up
that river twenty miles, measured thereon by a
straight line, and thence castwardly to :. poin.
where the hnndredth degree of west longitude
crosses REQ River; being the soutliwes. anglo
in the line designated between tie United
States and Mexico, and the same angle in the
line of the territory set apart for the Indians
by the United States
If this boundary be assented to by
Texas, she will be ocieted to that extent
in her title. And some may suppose
that, in consideration of this concession by.
the United States, she might, without
any other equivalent, relinqush any claim
to any part of New Mexico. But, un
der the influence of sentiment of iu. iice
and great liberality, the bill proposes to
Texas, for her REIMBURSEMENT of any
such claim, a large pecuniary equivalent.
AS consideration for it. and cosidering
that portion of the debt of Texas was
created on a pledge to her creditors of
the duties on foreign imports, transferred
by the resolution of annexation to the
United States, and now received and re-
ceivable lin their treasury,a a majority Of
the committee recommend the payment
of the sum of -- millions of dollars to
Texas, to be applied in the first instance
70 the extinction of that portion of her
debt for the reimbursement of which the
duties ON foreign imports were pledged,
as aforesaid; and the residue in such man
her as she may direct. The said sum is
TO be paid by the United States in stock,
TO be created, bearing five per cent inter.
est annually, payable half yearly at the
treasury of the United States, and the
| principal reimbursablc at the end Of four
teen years.
According TO an estimate which has
/ been made, there are Included in the ter
ritory to whichsit is proposed that Texas
shall relinquish her claim, embracing that
part of New Mexico lying east of the Rio
! Grande, Il little less than 124,933 square
miles, and about rs, ,957 i 90 acres of land,
From the proceeds of the sale of this land
/ INC OHitcu OldteS may ulnulatply DC re-
imburscd portion, if not the wboe of iIicN
amount of what's thus proposed 10 be adj
vanced to Texas.
1t cannot be antich'rtc1 that Texas
will decline to accede to these liberal pro.
positions; but if she should tits to be dis
tinctly understood that the title of the
United States to any Territory acquired
from Mexico East Of the Rio Grande wilt
remain unimpaired and in the same con-
dition as if tho proposals of ,,djustmcut
now offered had never been mad Z.
"A majority of the committee recon.
mend to the Senate that the section con-
tanning these proposals to Texa, shall be-
incorporated into the bill embracing the
admission of California as State, ard tli6
establishment of Territorial governments
for Utah and New Mexico. The deEni-
tion and establishment of the boundary
between New Mexico and Texas has ffi
intimate and necessary come, ton Win
the establishment of a Territorial gouern-
ment for New Mexico. TO form Ter
ritorial government for New Mexic, with.
IN. 81.