Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-12-30

City, Saturday, Dec. Is, 1855.
The undersigned committee, appainted
at meeting of the people of Otoe Coun-
ty, held at Nebraska City Dss~ztll with
irstructions to report at an adjourned
meeting to be held at the same place on
the 18th Of December, 1853, in relation
to the proposition expected to be pend
ing before Congress, to incorporate that
part of Nebraska Territory south of the
Platte River, with Kansas Territory, and
the speedy admission as an Independent
State, beg leave to report:
That they have had the same under
consideration, and consider the measure
one of great and vital importance to the
citizens of this portion of the Territory,
thatit should be examined and discussed
by allwho are to be affected by it, and by
every party, regardless of party raneor,
and with the only desire to reach solu-
ton as will best promote the common veal
of our people, and be most in accordance
with the progress of the age, and the
progress of our institutions. If there
are any benefits to be derived from the
proposed annexation, it will be enjoyed
by all alike. Ifit should result disadvan-
tageously to the interests and prosperity
of the Territory, none of US will be ex-
empt from the common calamity. Our
interests and our future destiny being the
same, why should we not enter into an
investigation of this movement in which
we can have no opposite interests with
other than a single desire to arrive al
the same conclusions and thereby promote
harmony of feeling, and unity of efforts
1t will not be denied that the Terrific
rial form of government possesses some
advantages not enjoyed by State sover-
eighty. The expenses of erecting pub
lie buildings, constructing roads, and car.
rying on the Territorial government, sc.
it is true, are paid by the Federal Gov.
ernment, which we are aware, is neces-
sary in the infancy of any Territory
But while the Federal Government de.
trays some of the Territorial expenses, i
reserves to itself the right of controlling
the appropriations it makes, of appoint
in the Federal officers, and even of {
veto on the Territorial Legislation. A
the same time there are many, and, a:
we conceive, superior advantages realized
by a State Government Hence the
people of Territory always do desire
and always do seek, voluntarily, to ex
change Territorial for that of State
Government.
We know of no instance In the histo
ry of our Government, where the people
of territory have not embraced tht
earliest opportunity, when the population
would have admitted of Representative
in the House of Representatives, to omakt
application to be admitted as an Indepen
dent State: while there are many in
stances where the application has beer
made at much earlier period, and il
some cases, where the population did no
exceed fraction of the basis for Con
gressional representation.
The addition of the South Platte of tn,
Territory of Nebraska to the Territor,
of Kansas, will give to the Territory thu
united, the requisite population to enabl
its citizens to demand admission, as sool
as the preliminary steps are taken to
wards forming and accepting State Con
stitution. Shall we then form the frs
and only exception in the history of tn
past, to refuse the position within ou
grasp, of becoming an integral part of
sovereign State of the American Union
Shall we, in consideration of the tri
fling sum received from the Federal Gov
ernment, for we cannot conceive of an
o:her inducement, voluntarily prefer ou
present condition of political infancy, an
with our eyes open, discountenance an
reject the manifold advantages of a Stat
Government within the Union?
From the mouth of the Missouri to il
head waters in the Rocky Mountain
there can be found no geographical lin
so suitable as a natural boundary betwee
political communities as the Platte rive
Much of the time utterly impassibl
and at all times difficult of fording, an
more difficult to bridge, nature evidentl
designed it as the dividing ltne betwee
Independent States! Why, In organii
ing our political communities, should n
that line be respected 2 Its presence,
dividing one portion of community fro
another, under the same local govern
ment, will always be, as it has alwa,
been in the past, productive of section
feeling. But there are no natural o
struetionS to ntercommunicalion betwet
, the two Territories of Kansas and n
e braska which can suggest any geograp
ical reason why the South of Platte al
Kansas Territory should not rally und
? the same State Government.
Itis true, that, geographically, the tie
b ritory south of the Platte, which is pr
posed to unite with Kansas Terrilo
viii be IN extent, as one to four, al
hence, it is said, that our interests mt
necessarily be under the control of 4
largest or preponderating interests IN I
Territory But if that is an objects
TO becoming a part of the State of Ia
sas, would it not be an equal one to a
e other State? Can that portion of I
: present Territory on the Missouri /
tween the Platte and the Nemaha rive
8 ever be anything else than a smaller p;
/ of of any State with which It NAV
g connected, and which shall have the
& quisite population to demand admissi
= in the Union? What proportion of 1
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