, 1853-04-30
Washington Territory" All's
well that ends well"

What we confidently conJectuTed IN OUT
last issue, has been rendered " "assurance
doublv sure" The Territory Of Washing
ton is a fixed fact. The bill organizing the
Territory, which passed the House of Rep
resentatives on the 10th of February, full
details Of which we have already published,
passed the Senate on the I'd Of March,
without amendment. Hencelorlh Northern
Oregon has an independent existence, and
a destiny to achieve separate and distinct
from that Of her Southern neighbor. She
has been baptsed by the Congress of the
United States, into a new name-a name
GLORIOUS, and Gear to every American
heart Everywhere, throug hout he length
and breadth of the Territory, the news will
be received with joyful acclamations. Al
this place, the 25th of April, day long to
be remembered, was devoted TO the general
joy. Beneath the ample folds Of our ma
tions' flag, unfurled to the breeze, the deep
moulhed tones of an hundred guns, awaken
ipg the echoes of our fair Pacific shores,
proclaimed the welcome news.
We are only disposed at present TO speed
the full career of joyousness so BETTING the
present occasion. "All goes merrily as a
marriage bell.' The separate organization
which the citizens of Northern Oregon with
earnestness, and we may say entire unanim-
hy, have ardenIly wished and labored for,
has been triumPhantly achieved. From our
southern feighbors we part with those feel
ings, we trust which become members of
the same great family. In the prosperity Of
Oregon, the citizens Of Washington Terri
tory will ever feel the liveliest interest. -
The future of each is pregnant with noble
achievements. Between them, while each
devotes itself to the development Of its own
peculiar destiny, there should and doubtless
will be a constant and laudabie strife-whieh
shall highest advance the credit and renown
Of the American name upon the western
shores of the Republic.
In the act organizing our Territory, the
Congress Of the United States has followed
very closely the precedents established in
the Organization of the older Territories
These may have been very well suited TO
the circumstances of population, interior,
agricultural, and nigh to the central govern
ment but, as has been proven by the his
tory of Oregon Territory, wholly foreign,
and ill-adapted to the wants, the absolute
necessities, Of people whose home is upon
the distant shores of vast ocean, whitened
with the sails of the richest and the most
uxuriant traffic known 10 the commercial
world. Improvements upon The ancient
system Of territorial organization, suggested
by experience As both necessary and useful,
If not indispensable, requiring only trial to
demonstrate their praoticability, should now
engage the earnest attention of the people
Of Washington Territory, and be pressed
vigorously upon the attention Of Congress
Every trace Of Proconsularity, from the
evils of which, in common with our south
ern neighbors, we have suffered in our pre-.
Vious territorial existence, should be as far
possible eradicated. The progress of the
age demands it. In nothing is the Republic
30 far behind that spirit which so emiuently
eharacterizes il, as in the government Of its
Pacific terFitoFies-
The closest approximation to the sover-
eighty of State, while preserving the forms
Of dependence german to a Territory, is
problem in the successful solution of which,
We have now an intimate interest. At no
time can it be so consistently or more ef-
fectually urged upon the consideration of
the central Government as in the infancy of
our existence as a Territory. There is a
sure guarantee in The PrOmPliSde with
which our wishes in reference 10 separate
organization have been accorded to, that
every reasonable demand we may prefer,
will meet With ready and cordial acquies-
eence. But of these thoughts, more anon I
D%We shall publish, on the receipt Of a
certified copy, the "Bin to establish the
Territory of Washington, ," which will prob
ably be brought by the next mail 6On the
Atlantic States
9Th the o. S. House of Representa-
lives, the Senate's resolution providing for
wagon road to California and Oregon was
rejected. The Senate's amendment maui