The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . while he hadfailed to secure the passage of the act, in conse- UNITED STATES, 1853-1854 UNITED STATES, 1853-1854 quence of the Mexican war intervening, and theslavery agitation which ensued, no one had ob-jected to it upon the ground that there was nonecessity for the organization of the the di
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . while he hadfailed to secure the passage of the act, in conse- UNITED STATES, 1853-1854 UNITED STATES, 1853-1854 quence of the Mexican war intervening, and theslavery agitation which ensued, no one had ob-jected to it upon the ground that there was nonecessity for the organization of the the discussions upon our Territorial ques-tions during this period, Mr. Douglas often calledattention to the fact that a line of poHcy hadbeen adopted many years ago, and was being exe-cuted each year, which was entirely incompati-ble with the growth and development of ourcountry. It had originated as early as the ad-ministration of Mr. Monroe, and had been con-tinued by Mr. Adams, General Jackson, Mr. VanBuren, Harrison, and by Tyler, by which treatieshad been made with the Indians to the east ofthe Mississippi River, for their removal to thecountry bordering upon the States west of theMississippi or Missouri Rivers, with guaranties insaid treaties that the country within which these. STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS Indians were located should never be embracedwithin any Territory or State, or subjected tothe jurisdiction of either, so long as grass shouldgrow and water should run. These Indian settle-ments, thus secured by treaty, commenced uponthe northern borders of Texas, or Red River, andwere continued from year to year westward untilwhen, in 1844, Mr. Douglas introduced his firstNebraska Bill, they had reached the .Nebraskaor Platte River, and the Secretary of Warwas then engaged in the very act of removingIndians from Iowa, and settling them in the valleyof the Platte River, with similar guaranties ofperpetuity, by which the road to Oregon was for-ever to be closed. It was the avowed
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