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RESOLUTIONS and C DECLARATION, adopted

 unanimously bya ConUention of Delegates from the lStates and Ierritories Of the

 West, and South- Vest hezd in Me citg

 of Cincinnati, on Me third, fourth and .J3M days of July, 1843.

 Resolred, That the right of the United States

 to the OREGON TERRITORY, from forty

 two to fifty-four degrees forty minutes.

 North Latitude, IS unquestionable, and that

 1t IS the imperative duty of the General

 Government forthwith to extend the laws

 of the United States over said Territory. Resolred further, That to encourage emigra-

 ton to, and the permanent and secure set

 clement of said Territory, the Congress of

 the United States ought to establish line

 of Forts from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean-and provide also a sufli- cient naval force for the protection of the Territory and its citizens.

 Resolved, That for the purpose of making known the causes and principles of our action, the following declaration is unani- mously adopted and now signed by the members of this Convention, with instruc- tons to the officers thereof to transmit A copy to the President of the United States. and to each member of Congress, and also to the Executives of the several States. with request to present them to their re- sIective Legislatures.

 DECLARATION OF THE OREGON CON-

 MENTION.

 fl Declaration of he Citizens of Me .Missis- slppi Pulley, m Contention assembled, at

 Cincinnati, July 5M, lS43, for Me purpose ot adoptng such measures as may induce the tmmediate occupation of he Oregon

 Territory, by Me arms and zaaes Of Me

 United States of North .America.

 We, the undersigned citizens of the Mssis- slppl Valley, do hereby declare to our fellow citizens of the whole Republic, that in urging forward measures for the immediate occupa- ton of the Oregon Territory, and the North West coast of the Pacific, from 42, to 54 deg. 40 minutes, North latitude, we are but per forming duty to ourselves, to the Republic. to the commercial nations of the world, to posterity, and to the people of Great Britain and Ireland, not, as we believe, to be bene- iitted by the further extension of her empire. Duty to ourselves requires that we should urge the immediate occupation of Oregon. not only for the increase and extension of the " est, but for the security of our peace and safety, perpetualy threatened by the savage tribes of the North-West That this duty IS required of Us as due to the whole Repub- iic, all parts of which may not appreciate, as they seem not to have appreciated, the value of the territory in question, and its po- iitlcal importance to the honor, prosperity, and power of the Union, to say nothing of our commercial interests and naval predomi- nance, threatened as they are with injury or diminution, should the N. E. coast of that Ocean pass into the possession of great na- val power That as an independent member of the great family of nations, it is due from us to the whole commercial world, that the ports of both coasts of this continent should