This resolution was introduced by Mr. Semple to pave the way for the passage of those bills in relation to a territorial government in Oregon.
The Senate failed to act upon the bill to establish a territorial government; the earlier bill to protect American settlers also failed of adoption; and thus American caravans continued to cross the plains unprotected and ignored.
Without a territorial government through no fault of their own, the settlers had been repeatedly visited by calamities which the prompt action of Congress might have averted.
Senator Walker of Wisconsin proposed a rider to the appropriations bill, which would extend the Constitution and laws in such a way as to authorize the President to set up a quasi-territorial government, in the country acquired from Mexico.
And a State or territory that has no law but such as it derives from the constitution of the United States, must be entirely without any State or territorial government.
The bill from the House for the establishment of a territorial government in Oregon excluded slavery altogether from that vast country.
This is not a question of territorial government, but a question involving the continuance of the Union.
It will be important during your present session to establish a Territorial government and to extend the jurisdiction and laws of the United States over the Territory of Oregon.
Measures were adopted at the earliest practicable period to organize the "Territorial government of Oregon," as authorized by the act of the 14th of August last.
It now becomes important that provision should be made by law at the earliest practicable period for the organization of a Territorial government in Oregon.
The vast distance from the settlements of the Wabash to the present seat of Territorial government, renders the administration of justice burdensome and expensive to them in the highest degree.
United States wanted the southern country, and great as is the convenience of possessing it, I never would have consented to have taken it to have kept them inTerritorial government forever.
Bernhisel, who, after giving an account of affairs in the Valleys, informed Elder Woodruff that he had come to Washington as our representative, bearing a petition for a Territorial Government.
At this time President Young informed Colonel Kane that it was the intention of the Saints to settle in the Great Basin, and {255} that as soon as they were located to apply for a territorial government.
He again went to Philadelphia where he had several visits with Colonel Kane with whom he talked over the situation relative to a Territorial Government.
If successful in this their first attempt at Territorial government, we may hope for a gradual concentration of other Indians in the new Territory.
I recommend to your favorable consideration also the policy of granting a Territorial government to the Indians in the Indian Territory west of Arkansas and Missouri and south of Kansas.
An epistle of the Twelve to Orson Pratt in England, explaining this subject, said, "We have petitioned the Congress of the United States for the organization of a territorial government here.
The ordinance, it is said, was a compact entered into by the confederated States before the adoption of the Constitution; and that in the cession of territory, authority was given to establish a territorial government.
If Congress may establish a territorial government in the exercise of its discretion, it is a clear principle that a court cannot control that discretion.
Illinois soon sought admission to the second grade of territorial government.
This made the Illinois country more distinctly frontier by again reducing it to the first grade of territorial government, Indiana Territory, as such, not being represented in Congress until December, 1805.
Antagonism to the Indiana government became still more bitter when, in December, 1804, after an election which was so hurried that an outlying county did not get to vote, the territory entered the second grade of territorial government.
The Northwest Territory having advanced to the second grade of territorial government, in December, 1799, its delegate took his seat in Congress.
A state constitution was drawn up on one hand; on the other, was prepared a memorial to Congress praying for a territorial government, and both documents were submitted to a vote on September 5.
Here was a new settlement far away from the seat of territorial government, while the government itself was impotent.
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