views and daring conceptions, the really formidable opponents of that encroaching republic which is destined to usurp dominion over the whole continent unless checked and circumscribed by a spirit as bold and free as her own. That spirit we may awake, by calling into existence a great NORTHERN CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES.

I have now accomplished the task I proposed at the outset. Australasia and South Africa deserve and require a careful inquiry into their present condition, and might need specific provisions to meet peculiar exigencies. That inquiry at some future period I hope to make, and thus complete the scheme of government I have devised. But our North American provinces must be dealt with at once, if we wish to retain our dominion over them. I therefore now, and without further delay, propose the only plan by which I believe they can be preserved to England.

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APPENDIX.

A.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT

OF OREGON.

B.

A BILL FOR THE ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF

WISCONSIN INTO THE UNION.

C.

A GRADUATED TABLE, SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY APPROPRIATED BY THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN THE STATE, FOR THE EDUCATION OF EACH CHILD, BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND SIXTEEN YEARS, IN EACH COUNTY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

A.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT

OF OREGON.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all that part of the territory of the United States which lies west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, north of the forty second degree of north latitude, known as the Territory of Oregon, shall be organized into and constitute a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Oregon: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulation respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed. And provided also, That the title to the land, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, now occupied as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in said territory, together with the improvements thereon, be confirmed and established in the several religious societies to which said missionary stations respectively belong: And provided further, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to inhibit the Government of the United States from dividing said territory into two or more territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said territory to any other state or territory of the United States.