Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Admission of the State of Oregon to the UnionW.S. Duniway, state printer, 1909 - 53 páginas |
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Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Admission of the State of ... Oregon. Legislative Assembly Visualização completa - 1909 |
Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Admission of the State of ... Oregon. Legislative Assembly Visualização completa - 1909 |
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Página 18 - ... dictation. I will now show my colleague how an honest Representative can vote for admission, if he will listen to my argument and the reasons which I shall give in defense of my position. Mr. Speaker, I think this is a strange necessity that compels the Northern Representatives upon this floor to give the reasons for their votes for the admission of another free state into this Confederacy. Sir, I shall vote for the admission of the State of Oregon without hesitation, without reluctance and without...
Página 46 - They have not yet even found their amplest and most appropriate theatres — the tranquil surface of the North Pacific Ocean, and the vast inclined plains which spread east and west from the base of the Rocky Mountains. The magic boat and the flying car are not yet seen upon this ocean and this plain, but they will be seen there; and St.
Página 20 - For one, sir, I think that the sooner a Territory emerges from its provincial condition the better ; the sooner the people are left to manage their own affairs, and are admitted to participation in the responsibilities of this Government, the stronger and the more vigorous the States which those people form will be. I trust, therefore, that the question will be taken, and that the State may be admitted without further delay.
Página 46 - The magic boat and the flying car are not yet seen upon this ocean and this plain, but they will be seen there; and St Louis is yet to find herself as near to Canton as she now is to London, with a better and safer route, by land and sea, to China and Japan, than she now has to France and Great Britain.
Página 39 - The position of the advocates «f the organization of Oregon was effectively stated by Mr. Benton when he said that Oregon was left without government, without laws, while at that moment she was engaged in war with the Indians. And he added, 'She is three thousand miles from the metropolitan seat of government, and although she had set up for herself a provisional government, and taken on herself the enactment of laws, it is left to the will of every individual to determine for himself whether he...
Página 46 - I say the man is alive, full grown, and is listening to what I say (without believing it perhaps) who will yet see the Asiatic commerce traversing the North Pacific Ocean — entering the Oregon River — climbing the western slope of the Rocky Mountains — issuing from its gorges — and spreading its fertilizing streams over our wideextended Union ! The steamboat and the steam-car have not exhausted all their wonders.
Página 36 - It was not an act of the government, leading the people and protecting them; but like all the other great emigrations and settlements of that race on our Continent, it was the act of the people going forward, without government aid or countenance, establishing their possession, and compelling the government to follow with its shield and spread it over them.
Página 13 - ... defeated by a vote of two thousand six hundred and forty-five for, to seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven against it, and the exclusion of free negroes carried by a vote of eight thousand six hundred and forty for, to one thousand and eighty-one against it. Many of those who voted for the exclusion of free negroes were at heart opposed to the policy, but it was considered necessary to throw this tub to the whale of the proslavery party to secure the success of the free state clause...
Página 35 - That any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall...
Página 37 - July following (1846),' by which it was provided that the boundary line should be the forty-ninth parallel to the middle of the channel which separates Vancouver Island from the continent, and thence southerly through the channel, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific Ocean, the navigation of the channel and straits to remain free and open to both parties.