The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-03

President transmitting copies OF the correspondence IN the
of the Rev. James Cook Richmond referred to the
Committee Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
The House adjourned at three o'clock
ADMIRABLE RESOLUTIONS.
1t is often that series Of resolutions
cinct comprehensive, and conclusive those which fol-
low, offered at and adopted by large democratic meet
ing held on the 9Th Of April last, at Annapolis Maryland
Of which the gallant Colonel G. W. Hughes president
The resolutions write and offered by Col. O. u
Browne who has only lately returned from Nebraska
Whereas the Cherokee Indians in the language of the late
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs in his annual report for 1852
anxious to cell the United States the
try containing about eight hundred known
the Cherokee Neutral Groundhat being the only land be
longing to those Indians lying within the limits of the pro-
posed Territories of Kansas and Nebraska and whereas the
present Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his annual report
strongly corroboraes In this particular the report his pre-
decesor and whereas delegation of Cherokee Indians had
several interviews with the Department of the Interior
mediaey after the Inauguration of President Pierce offering
for sale, and soliciting purchase of their Neutral Ground
and whereas all the Indian tribes within the jurisdiction of
the United States prohibited either by treaty pua
tions by the general policy of the government from selling
their lands to individuals foreign power and whereas
the Indian agent for the Cherokee agency, in his
port for 1852 his fears that the Cherokee govern
sustain itself under its present peclnary
rassment without selling this tract of land therefore,
Resolved, That President Pierce justly entitled the
thanks Of all true phianthrops for his approval of the
neutral ground to the United States.
Whereas the United States have clear perfect
large portion of the country embraced within the bounds
res prescribed In the bill organizing the Territories of Kan
and Nebraska and whereas in the language of the late
Commissioner of Indian Affairs his annual report for 1852
the Wyando Of the most highly civilized, wealthy,
and respectable tribes the American continent
patiently awaiting the establishment of territorial govern
ment the vast regsn north of the Arkansas and
west of the Missouri rivers" and whereas and
constantly accommodating population the western bor
ders of the Union also mpatienty awaiting the
ganization of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
and Whereas in the language of the Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs in his annual report the interests Of the In
tIfr OF the gov ernment of
the United States the interests of the people, and the in
eress of the Indians, identical and whereas every
bill that has been introduced into either house of Congress
for the organization of territorial governme of Mis-
souri, and Iowa has expressly provided that nothing therein
contained shall be construed impair the rights Of person
property pertaining the Indians in said Territory
to include any territory which, BY treaty with any Indian
tribe is not without the Of said tribe be included
within the territorial limits jurisdiction any State or
Terriory-thus rreeluding the possibility of violation OF
treaty stpuations therefore
Rosotrd That the immediate organization the Terrific
ries Of Kansas and Nebraska demanded BY public policy
sound morals, and good fathby every consideration that
should influence the patriot the phanthropist, and
Christian.
Whereas In the language Of the tenth amendment 10 the
constitution the powers delegated to the United States
by the constitution, prohibited by the States
reserved TO the States respectively or to people,
and whereas the power TO dispose and all needfu
rules and regulations respecting the territory proper
~ belonging the United States conferred upon Congress
by the I'd sectonf the ath article constitution does not
extend to the property Of individuals but Is confined own
phrasooogy property belonging the United States and
whereas all orthodox aboItonsts deny legal doctrine
recognised BY the Supreme Court the United States thai
slaves propertyhus destroying by their own logic the
only basis for argument in favor of the power OF Con
TO dispose Of and make all needu rules regulations
In md
existed in the old Louisiana purchase embracing Kansas and
Nebraska prior TO and the It's transfer by France
to the United States in 1908; andwhercas IL Is provided IN
the 3D. article Of the treaty by which the country embraced IN
those Territories acquired that the Inhabitants or the
ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union OF the
United States and admitted possible according
70 the principles Of the federal constitution the enjoy
men Of all the rights advantages and immntcs Of eiti
Of the United States; and in the mean time hoy
shall be maintained and protected the free enjoymen,
Of their liberty, property, and the religion they profess
and whereas the 9th article Of the provides that
this constitution, and the laws Of the United States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof all treaties made or
which shall be made, under the authority of the United
states shall be the supreme law Of the land the Judges
Of every State shall be bound thereby anything in the con
sutution laws Of any State the contrary
ing-bus making an treaties negotiated under the aubor
iy Of the United States part and parcel Of the supreme Law
Of the land and Of equal authority with the constitution n
SELF and whereas coded territory becomes part Of the ma
ton to which l. annexed in Justice and good faith .nd \
the language Of Judge Story, in his Commentarie al ~
Constitution Con terms stipulated the treaty :, and
whereas the Missouri Compromise annued by the act az
1856 adding TO the slave State Of Missouri the Platte
clearly bound by the slavery restriction Of 1870 ar Nc
souri, Compromise Kansas or Nebraska and ,nc,nd -
this time, six counties and about fifty thousand inhabtsp
and whereas the principle Of the Missouri ComproDi,a 49,
expressly repudated in lsis BY tho very men bo arr now
yooierou IN Procaiming its sanctity whereas ALI that
was left OF the Missouri Compromise was forever annnId nv
the spirit Of the acts creating territorial governments m New
Mexico and Utah, and known compromise measure ~
1850 therefore
Resofred, That the lath and saith sections Of The Kansas
and Nebraska BILL reported and amended by the Senate
are nothing than virtual and eectua il not formal
repeal Of an act not authorized by the constitution in viola
ton OF the solemn treaty by which the country embraced
within the boundaries Of those territories was acquired and
in deropaton Of the roscrved rights the peoplr not on
but an act that has been repeatedly snnucd and epuda
by Congress
Whereas popular sovereignty is at the basis ON which
rests the proud fabric Of national independence and m,
vital principle Of the Kansas and Nebraska bin therera
Resored, That In the organization o those Territories r
humbly implors Congress 10 reject all Amendments not
toned by principle or precedent pass the b and TER
prorlr auir.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company il is sad have de-
rlned 70 purchase the public works Of Pennsylvana on