New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-09
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III, L aaous IL 81 reported from the reFrisos i
,.al camr,itteo of the House Of Representa- At
washington. providing fcf The organisation q nve
nav Territorial Governments. The design y pe
ipcaae I'LL tbe open region belonging e the Union,
"A Ming il iii under the operation Of law, 90 mat
sssrc INV III ro longer any uncertainty ~ conlu
San q trouble, with regard to any q 1ne ieffi-
INV III ths country.
Thess i've new Territories. Nc proposed are de-
scgibed as follows
Their narles are to be Arizcnas Nevada, Idaho.
1)acclall INA Ehppewa. The first includes al that
portion Of territory ohfainea nom msaaso sass
river and west ef the l0ath meridian Its southern
boundary will be the Mexican border, and It's north-
egn the parallel of SO deg 30 min, separating it
from Utah. Arizona will thus form block nearly
square, Including most Of New Mexico west Of the
Rocky Mountains, and containing nearly two hum
ared Thousand square miles.
Nevada will comprise all that part Of Utah west
of the ll4th meridian, besides small triangle be-
tween Virgin river and the California State line,
and q marrow strip of what was formerly Oregon
territory CHOW Washington) between the eastern
border Of that State and Green river. 1t will thus
contain about ITS 900 square miles, and include
The now famous Washoe Mineral region.
Idaho, signfying Gem of the Mountains = is the
name proposed for the Pixies Peak Territory. Its
eastern boundary will be the l02d meridian; its
western, Green river; it's southern the 37th, and
its northern the 43d parallel Of latitude. The
Rocky Mountains will form q sort of backbone,
passing nearly along it's center It's extent WlH ne
about $50 600 square miles. BY thus chipping ne
wings of Utah on both the east and west sides re
latter will be left with scarcely onefourth q ils
present extent. narrow strip east Of Green
river will DO added to Nebraska.
DacotaYi Will include the territory west OF Minne-
sota lying between the 18th parallel on the north,
ana ihe Missouri river on the SOUTH with its trib
utarg, the Nobrsrah, and thence the 43d parallel to
The 102d meridian, which Will be its western limit.
The Missouri river viii thus divide It into two see
tons, nearly equal in extent The Territory will
contain lbs ,00e square miles.
The remaining country lying between N Nebraska,
Dacotah, the Rocky Mountains and the British Pos
OF I3o, 600 square miles.
Az q general thing it IS bad policy in Congress
to be organizing Territorial Governments in adj
vance Of population and settlement or where the
population is small and nomadie. These Terrific
ries are very costly & Institutions It takes q
legion Of ofice-holders to fill the different Offices
created BY a Territorial organization, and these
officers are all paid out Of the Treasury Of the
United States. They are generally broken-down
politicians, without much conscience, political or
| personal. And when they get to the Territories,
having little to do Of legitimate duty, they employ
their time in specializing in lands and town sites,
IN political intrgues and in keeping things gener-
/ ally in a state of ferment and disorder. Until a
Territory becomes State, all the expenses Of le-
gslation and the administration of law, are borne
| by the Federal Government and the cost is no
| small item.
But il there il any way Of settling, at once and
forever all these Territorial questions. the people
will gladly embrace 1t, And II the proposed bill
will accomplish that object, question of cost or
/ trouble will bio raised. Anything to getclear Of
all the complications and difficulties and complaints
which the unsettled condition of our Territories
has gvenri to, viii be willingly accepted by the
public at large.
tt all the region between the Mississippi and the
Pacific were organized States of the Union, there
would be at once an end Of great deal of sec
tional agitation and bad feeling in Congress and
throughout the country. Under the theory Of our
Government it is the business Of the States, re-
spectively, to take care of all their own domestic
affairs. Congress, in the event we have supposed,
would be excluded from any interference-and to
this extent, at least, we would have peace. Any
step, then, III that drecton-any advancement
our Territories may make towards the dignity Of
sovereign States is 50 much gained in the way Of
| cessation from strife and confusion.
/ We much fear however, that this proposition
like many others brought forward in Congress, is
| purely political moye-that it is made in the in
terest of party, and not for the benefit of the
| try. The bill Is under the auspices Of Black Re-
publican committee, and they will report clause,
of course, providing for the exclusion of slavery
| from the Territories proposed to be organized
They will do this more to secure the recognition Of
the principle of Congressional intervention than
for any other purpose. Some OF the Territories