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650 CLII. Twenty-ninth Congress—List of Members—First Session—Organization of the House 655 CLIII. Mr. Polk's First Annual Message to Congress 657 CLIV. Death of John Forsyth 659 CLV. Admission of Florida and Iowa 660 CLVI. Oregon Treaty—Negotiations commenced, and broken off 660 CLVII. Oregon Question—Notice to abrogate the Article in the Treaty for a Joint Occupation—The President denounced in the Senate for a supposed Leaning to the Line of Forty-nine 662 CLVIII. Oregon Territorial Government—Boundaries and History of the Country—Frazer's River—Treaty of Utrecht—Mr. Benton's Speech—Extracts 667 CLIX. Oregon Joint Occupation—Notice authorized for terminating it—British Government offers the Line of 49—Quandary of the Administration—Device—Senate Consulted—Treaty made and Ratified 673 CLX. Meeting of the Second Session of the 29th Congress—President's Message—Vigorous Prosecution of the War Recommended—Lieutenant-general proposed to be created 677 CLXI. War with Mexico—The War Declared, and an Intrigue for Peace commenced the same Day 679 CLXII. Bloodless Conquest of New Mexico—How it was Done—Subsequent Bloody Insurrection, and its Cause 682 CLXIII. Mexican War—Doniphan's Expedition—Mr. Benton's Salutatory Address, St. Louis, Missouri 684 CLXIV. Frémont's Third Expedition, and Acquisition of California 688 CLXV. Pause in the War—Sedentary Tactics—"Masterly Inactivity" 693 CLXVI. The Wilmot Proviso—Or, Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories—Its Inutility and Mischief 694 CLXVII. Mr. Calhoun's Slavery Resolutions, and Denial of the Right of Congress to Prohibit Slavery in a Territory 696 CLXVIII. The Slavery Agitation—Disunion—Key to Mr. Calhoun's Policy—Forcing the Issue—Mode of Forcing it 698 CLXIX. Death of Silas Wright, Ex-Senator and Ex-Governor of New York 700 CLXX. Thirtieth Congress—First Session—List of Members—President's Message 702 CLXXI. Death of Senator Barrow—Mr. Benton's Eulogium 706 CLXXII. Death of Mr. Adams 707 CLXXIII. Downfall of Santa Anna—New Government in Mexico—Peace Negotiations—Treaty of Peace 709 CLXXIV. Oregon Territorial Government—Anti-Slavery Ordinance of 1787 applied to Oregon Territory—Missouri Compromise Line of 1820, and the Texas Annexation Renewal of it in 1845, affirmed 711 CLXXV. Mr. Calhoun's New Dogma on Territorial Slavery—Self-extension of the Slavery Part of the Constitution to Territories 713