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University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Early Minnnesota Law Riesenfeld Rare Books Center 1848 Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing within the Limits of the Territory of Minnisota United States Congress and Senate Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/earlymnlaw Recommended Citation Congress and Senate, United States, "Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing within the Limits of the Territory of Minnisota" (1848). Early Minnnesota Law. 18. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/earlymnlaw/18 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Early Minnnesota Law collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact lenzx009@umn.edu. 30th CONGRESS, 1st Session. [SENATE.] MEMORIAL OF MISCELLANEOUS. TO, 98, CITIZENS OF T~E UNITED STATES, Residing within the li,n-its of the Territory of ~linnisota ris defined in the bitt before Congress at tlte last session, in relation to the boundary of that Territory. MARCII 28, \848. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House oj Representatives of the United States: The memorial of the undersignecl, citizens of the United States, resid-ing within the limits of the Territory of Minnisota as defirred in the biH brought before your honorable bodies at the last session of Congress, REPRESENTS MOST RESP~:CTFULLY: That they have learned with surprise and unxiety that the constitu-tional convention of Wisconsin have passed a res9lution, urging upon your honorable bodies a change of the northern boundary of the State as fixed by Congress, so as to include a hrge portion of country lying north of that line, and in fact as far as the mouth of Rum river, a distance of nearly sixty miles above the St. Croix. Your petitioners being inti-mately concerned in the decision of this question, bPg leave respectfully to protest against this contemplated change, and believe that the dimen-sions of the new State should rather be curtailed than enlarged, for the following reasons, to wit: First. Wisconsin, according to the bill for its admission, will make one of the largest States of the Union. Your memorial is ts believe that your lwnorable bodies are committed against the policy of admitting ne1v States into the confederacy which have more than a rP.asonable extent of territory. This was the case with Iowa, from whose northern limit, as prop<Jsed by the convention of that State, more than a degree and a half of latitude were cut off by Congress. Secondly. Your memorialists conceive it to be the intention of your hon~able bodies so to divide the present Territory of Wisconsin as to form · two States nearly equal in size, as well as other respects. A line drawn due south from Shagwamigan b1y, on lake Superior, to tl1e inter-Tippin & Streeper, prin ters. [ 98 J 2 section of the main Chippewa river, and from thence down the middle of said stream to its debouchure into the Mississippi, would seem to your memorialists a very proper and equitable division; which, while it would secure to Wisconsin a portion of the Jake Superior shore, would also afford to Minnisota some countervailing advantages. But if the northern line should be changed as suggested by the conven-tion, Minnisota would not have a single point on the Mississippi below the falls of St. Anthony, which is the limit of steamboat navigation. This alone, to the apprehension of your memorialists, would be a good and sufficient reason why the mouth of Rum river should not be the boundary, as that stream pours its waters into the Mississippi nearly twenty miles above the falls. Besides this, the Chippewa and St. Croix valleys are closely connected in geographical position with the upper Mississippi, while they are widely separated from the settled parts of Wis-consin, not only by hundreds of miles of mostly waste and barren lands, which must remain uncultivated for ages, but equally so by a diversity of interests and character in the population. The seat of government of Wisconsin is nearly four hundred miles distant from the St. Croix, and it is evident that the inhabitants of the latter, should it be annexed to Wis-consin, from their isolated position, would be subject to heavy taxation without receiving any corresponding benefit. 'l'he county of St. Croix contains more ·than four thousand souls, and is rapidly increasing in pop-ulation. If included within the 'I'erritory of Minnisota, it may reasona-bly be expected that the number will be quadrupled within five years ; but if, unfortunately for your memorialists, your honorable bodies should accede to the proposition of the convention, and incorporate it with Wis-consin, a severe check would be given to the prosperity of the whole upper country, and the prospects of Minnisota would be forlorn indeed. Finally, your memorialists have full ·confidence that your honorable bodies will consult the wishes of those who are most interested in the solution of this question, and will not do so much violence to th£\ feel-ings of the people of this region as to _place them within the limits of Wisconsin, in utter disregard of their prayers and remonstrances. Your memorialists sincerely believe that there are not ten men in the whole upper eountry who are not opposed to its incorpo·ration with the State of Wisconsin. Your memorialists, in conclusion, pray your honorable bo-dies to pass a law for the organizat10n .of the Territory of Minnisota, and for extending its limits to the line designated in this their memorial. And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. Henry H. Sibley Charles Kingsly W. Jackson Joseph Blackburn Alexander R. MacLeod J.E. McKusick John Banfill Richard McDonald J. W. Simpson A. J. Graham W. A. Cheever Peter Flinn E. P. Lockart John McKusick A. J. Hewitt Albion Masterman P. K. Johnson, Henry Smith James W. Boal Chesman Gould ' F. Oliver L.A. Gould H. B. B. Miller Peter Quinn John Dewey J. N. Buss John Vimk Louis Pelon C.P. V.Lull Jacob Fisher Ansen Northup James D. McComb John H. Brewster William McKusick Jesse Taylor Henry N. Crosby Matthew Tuisey John Collier M. S. Wilkinson E. A. Bissell D. B. Walden H. P. E(lwards J.M. Truman G.T.Howe William Cave J.M. McKewn S. W. Matteson William Stinchfield Edward Patch Benjamin W . Bnms'on Michael Phelan John P. Bateman Philo Farnum A. J. Parker .John 'I'. Car ton A. J. Shart J. B. Cory J. McKusick James E . Bunn James McCormick William Holcombe John Ryan Philip B. Jewell John Weymouth William J. Peet .John Buston Orin Weymouth ' L. W. Brown W. H. C. Folsom Jacob Mosher John W. Boston George H . Halladay Almon Brewster J. Bockenholdt 3 E. R. Steves J. McKnight John B. Page Samuel John Findly Homer F . McAllister Gideon Close Peter F . Houchay Elezer A. Greenleaf Albert Harris William H. Oliver Stepben Harris H. Greeley John Greeley William H . Johnson John Allen John Morgan L. G. Pelton Samuel Gilbert, jr. R. B. Johnson 0. J. Wri~ht William H . Foriman Patrick 0usin William Kent H. Crandal Jonathan W. Putnam Baley 'l'. Bald win D. Powers Andrew Morand Fresom Mason Robert McArter Bathease Farock Gaines Fouriour James H. Henderson William H. Mayhde Joseph Bean Charles F. Rowley A. Y. Drake George Lagro ·George Barker Charles Wilson Thomas T. Brady Ward W. Folsom Seth M. Sawyer J. 'f. Shipley Jerome Shultes C. D. Wright Ira C. Crum James Locke Parismus Harmon Andrew Warren Peter Harper Daniel Calar ($,2... [ 98] [ 98 J Thomas Foster William I. Hicks Joseph Brewster Baptist Delony William Hundley Noah 'Foggin John George Lennon Patrick Collins Ambrose Dyer S. N. Parker Hiram Thomas Oscar Dayton · 0. P. Wilson Robert H. Hinder Joshua Burton Thomas Mintur Ira A. Slayton D. B. Loomis B. I. Armstrong William G. Leek A. M. Wilson Theodore Margus A. S. Youle Harvey Wilson Robert Fowler :M. H. Patten A. Van Lebert James Patent Ed win Willis J. McLaughlin Orris J. Brown Geor~e S. De Witt W. E. Haskins Andrew L. Tuttle James Sanders Eli Woodman John Morse H. Gurnsey H. J ackson F. W. Abbott William H. Nobles Samuel Breck John Davis Charles Radford F. Piqneral America Jones Edmund Johnson Aaron Cornelison Edward Devlin Francis Wier Adam Lemon 4 E. D. F. Feirmer B. I:<'. Gates J. W. Maddux C. S. Lymun Abel Btoodgood1 S. L. Gleason John Cyphas John Wiseman 'rhomas Gaines-Ed ward Blake James Patten Horace Jacobs Richard Arnold G. W. Bat ties Harris Loomers L.B. Coffuy Zebulon Griffin Allen Sparks George Fields William Catlin Hiram Rise 'l'. Bernard .Hartman J. Kellner F. Unland Hei ter Stephens Robert Philbrook John 'l'hiury S. Partridge James S. Kimball Augustus Cadott Jo eph Dezhulla John La Force George Lagro Levi Lego Josr.ph Bastien William Whitisidcs Charles Cadott A. La Point W. S. Massy Baptiste Bushey Joseph Bennett Charles Collins D. Duncle C. P. Fontaine Jo eph Sophesaur Charles Boltiter Batis La Roy H. H. Perkins James Hamsher J 0seph H. Barkins; Ira A. Burroughs Amable Sicard Hawfel H. 0. Tobias John D. Burry Andrew Morow James Spare Adam Lightner Ezra T. Whitehead Moses Perin H. C. McKelvey George Ross P. E. Bassett N. C. West Jacob W els hons Andrew Kelly H. M. Rice Alexander Faribautt William Henry Forbes Hypolite Dnpries Antoine Yon James Purintas A. R. Fronch Luther Pateb R. P. Rm:sell Arel Godfrey Caleb IJ. Dorr John l\'lcDonald George A. Forbes Samm~l E. Peakes Edgar Treadwell John Reynolds Thomas Shortrud Robert McKum Thornton Bishop Joel Martin John T. Haight Norman B. Ferl'ell Clem. Greeley P.' B. Van De Venter John Anderson Jonathan Brown John Carriger Ira M. Matthews David S. C:hapman S. D. Wilcox William Setzer William Galespie G. W. McMurphey Charles Smith John McLaughlin Benjamin T. Otis John T. Chapman A. H. Livingston 5 David Spencer Asa S. Parker John Cormack ·Peyton Bankston William C. Pruny Riram B~nkes Charles Dntz Francis McCoy Alexander Warn Mark Capewell William F'isher Benjamin Bowles Lewis W. Bryson Charles P . Hrncls Charles Mitchell [Illegible.] Robert Cummings John Mann Samuel F'ernald Wallace Patch S . P. Folsom J. 0. McCulloch Pierre Borinaux Charles Borinaux Franklin Steeles Saniuel J Findley James McCormick Severn Bottineau Peter Quinn Smith Ellison John A. Brown Joseph Casterline William Zutt Jefferson Southard John Leach David P. Lyman Jonathan Hewitt William Keown Frank McLain Isham V. Long John Oobney Rufus Goodnow H. Myers Maurice M. Samuel Robert Hughes George Wein Caleb Cummings Duane Porter '"l'homas F'. J/.forton Riley Puller John Graham William R. Marshall [ 98] [ 98 j John H. Reid Ransom 1',. Randolph Levi Clark Abner Walker Louis Gnddare Sherburn Huse . John Holt C. A. 'l'uttle W. C. D. Harrington James Meredith W. M. Whaling Sanford Huse Samuel Barkleo James M. Hale. • • 

Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing within the Limits of the Territory of Minnisota

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