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Message of the Governor of Minnesota to the Legislative Assembly [1853]

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Message of the Governor of Minnesota to the Legislative 
Assembly [1852] 
Minnesota Governor 
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Message of the Governor of Minnesota to the Legislative Assembly [1852]

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Congress and Senate, United States

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Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing within the 
Limits of the Territory of Minnisota 
United States Congress and Senate 
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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 
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[ 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 
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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. 
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Memorial of Citizens of the United States, Residing within the Limits of the Territory of Minnisota

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War Department, United States

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1848 
Report of the Secretary of War in Relation to the Land Reserved at 
Fort Snelling for Military Purposes 
United States War Department 
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