The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-02-07
State Question.

The following is the memorial in regard t.
which so much fuss was made in the
House on Monday. We italicise certain
portions of it, and respectfully ask of Re-
publicans who voted for it to compare the
same with the doctrines of the party to
which they belong, as laid down in the Phil
adelphia platform:
FsT,T ft MEMORIAL -4fs s-o...ss. n
OF the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Mime
sofa; TO Congress asking for the passage Of bill
honng the people Of said Territory to form State
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITED STATES:
1ne Memorial Of the Legislative assembly of
the Territory Of Minaesota:
That your memorialists have learned with
regret, thata bill has been reported to and
is now pending in your Honorable body,
providing for the division of the present
Territory of Minnesota, by line running
from the northwest corner of Iowa, north
by the line of the Big Sioux and Red rivers,
to the line of the British Possessions in
North America, and for the formation of the
State OF Minnes' ia to comprise and include
all the Territory lying east of the proposed
line OF division and embraced within the
present limits of Minnesota, :
Your memOrialsts respectfully but ear
nestly demonstrate and protest against the
passage OF that part, and much of the said
bill as prescribes the lines of the said Terri
tory to be included in the State of Minneso-
ia, for the reason, that the typographical and
geographical features of said Territory are
such as to produce local and commercial. and
consequent political conflicts and riyalries
that would prove detrimental to the prosper
ity and growth of the State, and might put
to hazard the peace and harmony of the peo-
pie therelnbelonging; that there is not nor can
De, that community of interest between all
the different parts of such Territory which
is necessary to create and continue that uni
ty ofaction among the people throughout
the same, which is essential to the peace and
good government of State; and especially
for the reason that your memorialists. for
and on behalf Of tho people of the Terrific
ny, claim to have the right to be heard upon
matter involving questions so materi | and
important to them and their interests, not
only for the present but for all future time,
and to have their wishes and interests con-
suited and regarded in the matter, that they
are the persons principally effected, now and
for the future in the matter, their wishes
and opinions should be paramount to all 9th
er consid, ratiOns and to impose upon them a
measure of such momentous and continuing
consequences, against their wishes or even
without their consent, would be violation
OF their sovereign rights as a people, and tyr
annical in the extreme.
While your memorialist thus protest
against any provisions Of any bill imposing
upon the people of the Territory any partc-
uar limits to the country to be included in
the >tate of Minnesota, they are desirable
that your Honorable body shall pass prop
er bill, giving to the people of the Territory
as it is the consent of Congress, to the for
nation of a State Constitution with such
Territorial limits as they may prescribe,
to the admission of the State of
Minnesota into the Union upon an equal foot
ing with the original States,
Your memorialists, therefore, pray that
your Honorable body, will, at as early day
as practicable, pass proper bill, giring to
the people Of this Territory, your consent to
the formation of such State Constitution by
them, with such Territorial limits as they,
through their Delegates in convention as
sembled, may prescribe, and they By their
votes may adopt, within the boundaries of the
present Territory of Minnesota.
And your memorialists are in duty bound
to pray. E. b. BARRows.