Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-01-26
CongrsjS gths United States.
HCLJSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MoNpAY, fanuary ~.

tcTTHofH " N''e" FJ
tion and state .sov~rnmeHt, Hn' jor Ms
edmiss,sn Of such stnte into the Onion,
on an eqaal footing zpith the original
states L; and far ether Purposes"
The bill being on its final passage.
INa. oy1xcY's srEucH CONTINUED
In this resolution of the old congress 1t
;s ,xnrrsslv declared, tina, the constitution
Of the United State. having been adopted
bv nine states, an act Of the cd congress
could have no effect to make kentucky a
separate member Of the union, and that al
though they thought it e%xPedlcpt that IT
should SO be admitted, yet that this could
cn,y Be done under the provisions made
in the new constitution. 1t is impossibleto
have a more direct cotemporaneous evil
dsnce that the case contemplated in this ar
,jcle was tina, &C territories within the IL
Mrs Of the old United States /; yet The gen
,leman from North Carolina (Mr. Macon)
for whose int gritty and independence l
have very great respect, told US the other
day "tha, if this article had not terri
,o.ies without the limits of the old T.. S.
to &C, upon, it would be wholly without
meaning. Because the ordinance OF the
old congress had secured the right to the
states within the old Urited Stats, and 9
provision for that object in the new con
stitution was wholly unnecessary" Now
I viii appeal TIA the senileman's W candor
if the very reverse ct the conclusion he
draws is not the true one after he has CON
sidrred the following fact: That by this
ordinance of the Old congress, it was de-
clarrd that the boundaries 1T the contrm.
plated states, and the terms of their admls.
sion should be, in certain particulars, spe.
cih-d in the ordinance, subject to the con.
trout of congress. Now, as by the Few
constitution the old congress was about 10
be annihilat, d, it was absolutely necessary
for the very tuihlment of this ordinance,
that the pew constitution should have this
bower Cor the admission OF me- states with.
IN tie ancient limits SO that he ordinance
Of tie I'D congress. far from showing the
multi v cf such a provision tor the terrific
ries within tie ancient limits, expressly
proves the reverse and 1t IS an evidence
Of its necessity TO eH:rt the object Of the
ordinance itself.
| think tn Re can be no more satisfacto.
nv evidence adduced or required Of the
Rtst pant of the position, that the term
new states" did intend new political
sovereienties within the limits of the old
United States. For II is here shcwn that
the Gre alton Of such states, within the ter
~ritorial limits fixed hy the treaty of 1883,
had been contemplated. that the old con.
grtss itself expressly asserts hat the new
constitution gave the power for that object /;
that the nature OF the old o, dinasce rrquir.
ed sub a power 10. the purpose of carry
ing its provisions into effect, ard that it
mas beyn from the time of the adoption Of
the federal constitution unto this hour, ap-
pied exclusively TO the admission of states,
within The limits ht the old United States,
and WIS never attempted to be extended
10 any Other object.
Now having she YIN apurpose at the time
of the adoption of the constitution of the
L: S ates. sufficient to occupy the whole
scope OF tbs terms of the article, ought
not the evidence to- be very strong to salts
ty the mind that the terms really intended
SOMETHING else btsid5s this obvious pur.
pose /; that it may be fairly extended to the
entire circle of the globe, wherever title
Can be obtained by purchase or conquest,
and the new partners in the political power
may be acmitted at the mere discretion Of
this legislature, any where that II wills. A
principle thus monslrous is asserted in this
bill.
But I think it may be made satisfactory.
ly 20 appear, rot only that the terms " new
states" in this article, did mean political
sovereignties to be formed within the ORR
ginal limits of the y. States, as has lust
been shewn, bot, also, negatively, that it
did not intend new political sovereignties,
with territorial annexa,ions, to be created
without those original limits. This ap-
pears first from the very tenor Of the arti-
tie. All It's limitations have respect 10 the
creation of states, within the original limits.
Two states shalt not be joined; no new state
shall D. erected, within the jurisdiction Of
any other state, withou, the consent of the