during or directly after the close of the war and one of the most obvious duties on the continental which held its in philadelphia directly after the close of that struggle was the of an act or for the government of the vast domain thus committed to its care and disposal the responsible of this was by oa a select committee of mr of va chase of md and of r i who in due time reported a plan for the government of the western territory contemplating tbe whole rf ion included our boundaries west of the old thirteen and as far south as our st decree of north latitude territory as yet partially to the but wliich was expected to be so and embracing several of our present slave states this plan contemplated the division of this territory into seventeen state eight of them situated below the parallel of the falls of the and nine above it among other rules reported from this committee by mr foi the government of this vast region was the following tbat year of be slavery � in any of mid in in of whereof the ill have convicted lo be � having the report under consideration mr of n moved the striking out of thk i a � t he above mr bead of c the motion tbe and days being required by mr were ordered put in this form � shall the to be ont stand � and decided aa follows it mr b i ay i � y � by ay hand by j � � � o j o � � s ft no read no so the waa lost aud tbe words were struck ont lost � states aye to only three and of the members s resent fifteen for to six against mr s proposition bnt the articles of required a vote of nine states to carry a proposition and failing to receive so many this comprehensive slavery from the was the after some further was finally approved april all the but pose from in tbe in the continental in new york with of the government of the territory raising a ef which of was that committee reported an for of the territory of the united states of the � the area contemplated by mr s bill having been by the southern states claiming dominion over it bill embodied many of the provisions originally and reported by mr but some and with � ix able articles of perpetual compact tbe of them as follows � there bo in ihe � md bo to this was added prior to its passage � ti wa foi ths j of from labor or service soon after embodied in the and in this shape tbe was adopted july th by a unanimous vote and tbe ni the old articles of having proved inadequate to the creation and maintenance of a capable and efficient national or central authority a of from tbe several states was a � in philadelphia io � george washington president result of its labors was our present constitution though some mainly of tbe nature of on power were proposed by the several state assembled to pass upon that and adopted the following are all tlie of that instrument which are presumed to relate to the of slavery � we of the in order to form o more perfect union provide f r ihe the i tlie of liberty to and our do and this constitution for united stole of all l � ball h � l� fin code of a and � of j � � and shall ba lie states h may to their be determined by adding to the number of free bound to years and not i of all other duty be imposed exceeding ten dollars � ihe of he writ of not be n bon in of rebellion or the public may re no bill of or � z � be passed art iii treason the c� only war them or in to their giving aid and � art iv i l be of h bo entitled to all lie of citizens iu ko held to service or labor in state under laws thereof into another in of any law or therein be from or labor but shall bo delivered up on claim of party to whom such service or labor may b� i a new may be admitted by the union bu no new shell be formed or erected any other stale any state be formed by or more or to the the of th of tbe u w of uie tbe fame la of and ill needful rules the or property t and in be bo to pr ny of the united or of any � to every in this rt form of and each of them i and on of oc of be against be made in � thereof all tbe made or be made of be law of the land and tiie in state be bound thereby in the or laws of any stale to the ing the above are and perhaps more than all � the or the that have been on side or the as bearing upon the of slavery it will be noted word or � slavery not appear therein mr who waa a and observant member of the and who took of its daily proceedings that silence waa � the unwilling that the of the states should recognize property in bein in slaves are presumed to ho they are na � never aa property temporary history proves that it waa the belief of at t a portion of the that slavery could not long survive the final of the which was expected to and did and were slavery day banished forever from the there might indeed m some in the compact or but are none which need be or essentially modified a direct provision for the restoration 