Identifier: iowafirstfreesta00salt (find matches)
Title: Iowa, the first free state in the Louisiana purchase : from its discovery to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Salter, William, 1821-1910
Subjects: Iowa -- History Mississippi River Valley -- History
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ho have an abiding faith that this great centralpower will be true to its trust. To preserve thisUnion, to make its existence immortal, is the highdestiny assigned by Providence to this central power.If I could, I would fill the public mind there withthis sacred sentiment, with a firm resolve, to provefaithful to this mission to which it is called. I wouldtransmit it from father to son to the latest posterity.I would make them feel, like the vestal virgins thatkept the sacred fire, that the high command is uponthem, to keep the Union, to watch over it, to main-tain and defend it for ever. The result of the debates in Congress was toreduce the boundaries. Congress cut off Iowafrom the Missouri River, and made a line seven-teen degrees and thirty minutes west of Wash-ington the western boundary, and the parallelof latitude running through the mouth of theBlue Earth River the northern boundary. As-sent to this reduction of boundaries was madea condition of the admission of the State into
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John Chambers, Governor of Iowa, 1841-1S45 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ^Astor, Lenox and Tilden ijFou( dations.1905 in the Louisiana Purchase 261 the Union. When that assent was given, thePresident was to announce the fact, and theadmission of Iowa into the Union was to beconsidered complete. At this time Florida, aslave State, had been waiting seven years tohave a free State ready to come into theUnion with it; and, now that Iowa applied foradmission, the arrangementwas made that the twoStates should come into the Union together byone and the same act. The bill was approvedby John Tyler. It was one of his last acts asPresident of the United States. Nothing ofthe kind had been done before in the historyof the Government, though advocated in thecase of Missouri and Maine in 1820. In thepresent instance the policy failed; for thoughFlorida came immediately into the Union, Iowadid not come in. Iowa rejected the conditionimposed by Congress, and remained a Territory.Texas was annexed befo

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