The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern ConfederacyAbel, Annie Heloise
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The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy
Abel, Annie Heloise
Indian Territory; Slavery -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
The following we take from a printed slip sent to us by our Doaksville
correspondent, who informs us that it was sent to that office just as
he sends it. We presume that it is the programme laid down by some of
the Texas papers, friendly to the election of Sam Houston to the
Presidency....
_Re-organization of the Territories_
1. The organization of the Aboriginal Territory of Decotah, from that
part of the late Territory of Minnesota, lying west of the State of
Minnesota.
2. To fix the western boundaries of Kansas and Nebraska, at the
Meridian 99 or 100; and to establish in those Territories, Aboriginal
counties, for the exclusive and permanent occupation of the Aboriginal
tribes now located east of that line and within those Territories;
also to provide, that said Territories shall not be admitted into the
Union as States unless their several Constitutions provide for the
continuation of the Federal regulations adopted for better government
and welfare of the Aboriginal tribes inhabiting the same.
3. To organize the Indian territory lying west of Arkansas, as "the
Aboriginal Territory of Neosho," under regulation similar to those
proposed by Hon. Robert W. Johnson of Arkansas in 1854 for the
organization of the Indian territory of Neosho.
4. To purchase from the State of Texas all that portion of the State
lying north of the Red river and include the same in the Aboriginal
territory of Comanche or Ouachita.
5. The territory of New Mexico.
6. From the western portion of New Mexico to take the Aboriginal
territory of Navajoe.
7. From the western portion of Utah, to take the Aboriginal territory
of Shoshone.
Re-organize the eastern part of Utah, (the Mormon country), as an
Aboriginal territory.
Organize the western territory of Osage.
From Nebraska, west of the M.100, and south of the 45th parallel take
the Aboriginal territory of Mandan.
Organize the eastern half of Oregon, as the Aboriginal territory of
Umatilla.
Washington east of the M.118 to be the Aboriginal territory of
Okanagan.
Nebraska, north of the 45th parallel to be the Aboriginal territory of
Assinneboin. Emigration into these territories to be prohibited by law
of Congress, until the same shall have been admitted into the Union as
States.
In each territory, a resident Military Police to preserve order....
(c) Henry Wilson, in the _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power_, vol. ii,
634-635 says,
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