The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-27

g,ss ,-r,.li REPORT. rsT .a..f .
s4t Y(To accompany bill Ii. r. 75.)
TlelCemmtieeon on Territories to lolop toas refer
1gsia q biz from tie House Of Representatives,
In act b recognise the Territory Of Kansas
4agd for qtte' purposes" beg leave to report:
Tho first section of the bill provides, ''That
I'll that part, of the Territory of the United
States which lies between tho parallels of thir.
tyrsix degrees and thirty minutes and forty de.
grees Of north latitude, and which is east Of tho
eastern boundary of the Territory of Utah tC
thesouth-east corner thereof and east of linz
thenca due south to the said parallel Of thirty
HixdegreeS thirty minutes north latitude, anC
iSibounded1on the east by the western boundary
pf tho State of Missouri, shall constitute one
Territory, and shall be, and hereby is, constitu
tel and organized into a temporary government
by the namsof the Territory of Kansas"
sByreferenco to the map it will be perceived
that, in addition to all the country embraced
within the limits of the present Territory OF
Kansas it is proposed to include in the new
Territory all the country between the southern
boundaryof the Territory, as now defined by
law, and the parallel of 36 deg. 80 min, extend
lng, from the western boundary Of the State Of
Missouri across more than twelve and hal
degrees Of longitude, and being about thirty-five
miles in width at the eastern; and one hundred
and five at the western extremity. The eastern
portion of this strip of country which is now
nron1 sp1 To inpnrnorata within nd ran Ia
,ject to the jurisdiction Of the Territory Of Kan
sas, was coded with other territory to the Cher
okee Indians, by the treaties of the 9Th ofMay,
1928, April 18th 1888, and May 20, 1926, for
"a permanent home, and which shall, under
the most solemn guarantee Of the United States
be and remain theirs FOREVER home TINT shut
aaeuer in all future time, be embarrassed By harinq
ertenielarom1tH it the lines or placed ope, it tie
Jurisdiction Of a territory or state, nor be pressed
upon by the extension in any way, of any of the
limits ofany existing Territory or Statc''
In view Of this 'most solemn guarantee of
tue United States to the Cherokees, your com
mittes cannot refrain from the expression of the
hope and belief that the House Of Representa-
tivds in passing bill to extend around this In
dian country the lines of Kansas, and render it
subject to the jurisdiction of that Territory,
acted without due consideration, and probably
without full knowel se Of these treaty stipu-
lations, When the organic act of Kansas was
plssc lin 1854, the parallel Of thirty-sevcn was
fixedupnn as the southern boundary of the Ter.
ritorysinstead Of the line of thrty-sx degree
and thirty minutes, witha view to the preserva-
tion of Faith on the part of the United States
towards these Indians; and lest injustice nigh
be done to other indian tribes who held their
llnds under treaties with the United States. it
was expressly provided, "That nothing in this
at contained shall be construed to impair tie
rights OF persons or property now pertaining to
the Indians in said territory, so long as such
rights shall remain unextin guished by treaty
between the United States and such Indians, o i
toincludc any territory, which by treaty with
any Indian tribe is not without the consent o =,
said tribe, to be included within the territorial
limits or jurisdiction of any State or territory;
butau such territory shall be excepted out of
territory of Kansas In these considerations
y jur committee find insuperable objections to
Chat portion Of the Bill from the House Of Rep
resentatiycs which proposes to include within
tae limits, and renler subject to the jurisdiction
Of the Territory of Kansas, any part of the
country which is thus secured to the Indians by
solemn treaty stipulations.
wNor are the objections less formidable to in
cooperating within the limits of Kansas that
portion Of the territory of New Mexico which
lies north Of the line of 36 deg 80 mn and
cast of the Rio Grande, and subjecting it to the
operation of the other provisions of the BILL
That part of New Mexico, containing about
1900 square miles, was purchased from Texas
by one Of the acts known as the Compromise
measures of 1850, and formed apart Of the te.-
titory for which the United States paid the State
of Texas ten millions of dollars The second
section of the act Of Congress which contains
the terms and conditions of the compact between
the United States and Texas for the purchase
Of that Territory, incorporates the same in the
Territory of New Mexico, with the following
= guarantee: fAnd provided further, that when
admitted as State, the said territory or any
portion Of the same shall be received into the
Union with or.without slavery, as their Consti-
tuition may prescribe at the time of their ad-
4 misson.p
AFTER asserting this great principle of State
cqualty as applicable to every portion Of New
/, Mexico under the Constitution, and as guaran-
4 tied in thecompact with Texas, by prior in
itendment, so far as the country was acquired
from that State, the seventh section of the same
act provides that the legislative power 81 the
said Territory, shall extend to all iightfll sub.
jects of legislation consistent with the Consti
tuition tfthe United States anil ho.provisions Of
this act" thus leaving the people perfectly free
10 form and regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only to the DCohstitu-
ltionof the United States. 1t is now. proposed
isin the bill under consideration ito repudiate
these guarantees and violate these great fInda-
!, mental principles, by anncxing to Kansas all
that portion Of the country acquired from Tex
as which lies north Of 36 deg. 80 min, end i'm
posing upon it a prohibition Of slavery forever
from and after the first day or January, 1853
!, regardless Of the rights and wishes Of the pco
-plewhp may inhabit the Territory. ,i5
'Hs The etwenty- fourth section ofatbo bill is in
the following words: aa a9al ait lw
Sec. "a. Ind be u further esacted That So
mu III oftthe fourteenth section. and also So mnch