The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-12-02
GA monument in memory of Major Barry is
to be erected in Lexington, Ky.

TO be erected in Lexington, Ky.
MIcmIoAN-It is known to readers that MI
chican has formed "a Constitution, and organized
State Government, which has been in session; and
among other acts, elected two Senators liz Congress.
The National lntelligencer, and some other papers
call these proceedings premature, &c. contending
that Congress should have passed law authorizing
such steps, in order to render them valid. 1t ap-
pears to us that the following paragraphs, taken
from n communication in the Globe of the 18Th
INST setsthe matter at rcst--LoWeN Patriot
Il is fact that the first State that admitted
to the old thirteen, was Kentucky and that Con-
gress, by act of February 4;h, 1871, gave consent
" that such DISTRICT should be formed into State.
| But the people had previously assembled In Com
ven,ion at Dany!lle lin July 1907 to consider
whetherit expedent to become separate State
Tennessee was the next Territory admitted into
the Union. This country was ceded to the United
States by the State of North Carolina, and the peo-
pie were secured in their rights by the extension OF
the ordinance of 1877 to them. Under this ordi-
mace they adopted Constitution, and elected
Representative, and Senators to Congress, before
any formal act of Congress was passed admitting
the State into the Union. Vermont, Kentucky and
Maine, formed their Constitutions before any pre-
limnary of Congress, did it seem necessary
The case of Missouri clearly an instance OF
pendence, without the previous consent OF the Fed
: erul Government.
i Missouri was a State than year before she
, was admitted into the Union. The Constitution is
dated Eth July, 1920, and not until the 10th of
August, 1921, was she admitted by the formal act
y of the Federal Government into the Union" Thus
: from 18th July, 1920 the 10Th August, 1921, more
e than year, Missouri acting rs sovereign
Stale the shnckes of federal vassalage were dis
soled and she elected her Senators, and voted for
n l.. a. tod
d before any net of Congress passed authorizing
is the act.
e The able report of the lamentcd Lowndes, made
n November, 1926, states I" that when people are
authorized to form State and do so, the trammels
lof their territorial government fall OIL They nave
i performed the which makes them sovereign aud
I'd independently And he clearly lays down the point,
ne which was not controyered that the previous act
of the Federal Government was not necessary and
preliminary step.
But the case of Michigan is rendered much more
d. plain by the ordinance of 1887 By the act OF ces-
IS. sion from Virginia. she conveyed Ito the Ohteu
States all the territory Northwest the river OHIO,
j., and Con, ress nassed the ordinance of the 18Th of
JULY I1S7 which was ga compact between the
nc original State and the people and the States IN SAID
IL Territory. forever remain unalterahe COM
IL pdct in the compatible language OF NJ. Adams III
he the last House of Representatives, 0s solemn ara as
binding. as If it ,rsre ratified in He0ren. There
shall he SAYS This ordinance, not less than three
nor more than fye States &C.. and whenever any
cts of the said States shall have 700 free inhabitants
lat such States shall be admitted by ITS De"S ' '"
ay the Congress of the United States on nn eq''a 100"
inc with the original States, &c. &C. NO" htr'
- nl,in ease Michigan has more, l believe, by
ro- ber census. nearly $4,000 nhabants-accordn!
zen 70 ,be compact, she forms her Constitution, ant
sends her members To be admitted, which accordn.
l n the compact shall be done an equal footn!
,l with the original States.