Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14
In ls47 suppose the population Of the Northwestern
States to be very nearly this


One half this increase the last sixteen years and there
is apparent cessation Of the rapdy of the movement
There part of the American Union, old new slave
free, which, in the present well the past has increased
thing like this iapty is therefore, evident that
the institutions established by this ordinance had much TO do
with the prosperity of the Northwestern States It's author
ship and history become therefore, of small interest II
very remarkable thing, that the authorship and his
tory of that ordinance have been correctly given II
has attributed Nathan Dane but Nathan Dane was
only one and the most original conspicuous one of
those engaged in its authorship 1t has been attributed to
Mr. Jefferson but Mr.. Jefferson only one, and the
principal one of the actors engaged in the work.
Mr. Jefferson in France the time the ordinance
drawn up and passed. and in the shape in which did pass
and he had nothing to do with it, What he did we shall
presently Mr. Brinkehos statement is correct as far
goes, but it is only one item of the transaction We
shall rece this entire chapter of history for the benefit
of those who have no the journals Of Congress
From the record appears that the Of March, 1884,
the State of Virginia ceded by her delegates all her lands
northwest of the Ohio river to the United States Congress
assembled committee, consisting Of Messrs Jefferson OF
Virginia, Chase of Maryland and Howell, of Rhode Island
appointed "reg0 plan for the temporary govern
ment of the Western Territory"
This committee did report But ,ohat was that report
Was the ordnance any thing like the ordinance Not
at ALL The report contained nothing about equal inherit
ances-about religion knowledge education nor any pro-
visions for the guaranty OF the rights of conscience liberty
person all Of which are in the ordinance.
The report moreover lay the table OF Congress- and
1857 During nearly all this time, and for year after
wards, Mr.. Jefferson in Europe.
The ordinance, however did contain an ansavery pro-
viso. Was it the Nth that IA the report BY no
The ordinance prohibits slavery then, nou, and for
The report prohibited il after the year ls00-com-
mencng the year Of freedom seventeen years after the report
allowing in fact foothold slavery, and being measure of
abolition and not Of prohibition, which the ordinance is
Here is current exploded The report
made by Mr. Jefferson in l7s4, and the ordinance Of 1857
not the thing any particular only that the
States TO be created should in the confederacy They
totally different things But what became of the report
and ani-savery proviso
On the 10Th of April 1884, Mr. Spagh of North Carroll
ma, moved to strike out this provso against slavery BY the
rules Of the Confederation questions put the sustain
ing of any proposition and absolute majority Of all the
States required. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Con-
necticut Rhode Island New York. and PENNSYLVANIA voted
to sustain the proposition New Jersey does not appear to
have been counted The an-savery proviso there lost
After unimportant amendments proposed by Mr.. Gerry
this brief report without the anti slavery the educaton the
inheritance clause agreed TO-
On the 10th Of March, 1885, Mr. Jefferson appointed
by Congress Minister the Court OF Versailles whittier he
went and did not return till l7s9 long after the ordinance
digested and passed Here Mr. Jtersons agency in the
business entirely ceased The report brief and uuimpoan
lay the table of Congress
On the lth Of March, 1885, the day after Mr. Jeersons
appointment Mr. Gyson, Of Virginia, appeared and took his
seat in Congress.
On the 10th Of March, 1885, week after Mr.. Jefferson
OF
the following proposition he committed that in the
of an Instruction. to the Committee Western Territory
which seconded by Mr. Elcry, # Rhode Island
"Tha there shall be neither SLAVERY Involuntary scrq
de any ofe States described ~ the resolve OF Congress
Of the SD OF April 1854 otherwise thn in the punishment
Of crimes the party shall have been personally guilty
and III this regulation sh II b. article Of compact and
remain Fundamental PRINCIPE 81 the Constitutions betIoeen
the th inal States and Of the States described
in the said resolve OF the Esd Of Ap, i7s4."
This the test question. !, not the proposition of
Mr. Jefferson but is the proposition q the ordinance This
proposition, thus introduced by Mr. King, carried by the