Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-28

part Of the Federal debts contracted or to be contracted and
TO bear proportional part of the burdens Of the Government
to be apporoned them by Congress- according the
common rule and measure by which apportonments
thereof shall be made on the other States
The Governor, Judges Legislative Council Secretary and
such other officers Congress shall any time think proper
TO appoint in such district shall take oath affirmation of
fidelity the Governor before the President of Congress- and
all other officers before the Governor prescribed the 9th
day of January, 1885, to the Secretary at War, muatis
rautands.
whatsoever any Of the said States shall have of free in
habans many equal number to the thirteenth
part Of the citizens OF the original States, to be computed
from the last enumeraon such State shall be admitted by its
delegates into the Congress of the United States equal
footing with the said original States provided the Of
many States in Congress first obtained may that
time be competent TO such admission.
Resoed That the resolutions of the 23d of April 1854,
be and the same are hereby annulled and repealed
Such the ordinance for the government Of the Western
Territory when it ordered to third reading the 10th
of May 1887 II had then made further progress in the
development of those great principles for which has since
been distinguished some of the greatest monuments Of
civil jurisprudence" 1t made provision for the equal dis
ibution of said nothing of extending the funda-
mental principles of civil and religious berynothing Of the
rights of conscience knowledge education. 1t did not
contain the articles of compact which to remain unater
ed forever, unless by common consent.
We to the time when these great principles
first brought forward.
On the 9th of July l7s7 the ordinance again refer
red. The committee now consisted of Mr. Carringon Of
Virginia, Mr. Dane, of Massachusetts,, Mr.. R. H. Lee, Of
Virginia, Mr. Kean Of South Carolina, and Mr. Smith, of
New York. Mr.. Darlington, Mr. Lee and Mr.. Kean, the
new members, majority.
This committee did not "merely revise the ordinance
they prepared and reported the great BILL RIGHTS for the
territory northwest of the Ohio.
The question is here presented why was Mr. Darlington,
member of the committee, placed the head of it to
the exclusion of Mr. Dane and Mr.. Smith, who had served
previously In the absence Of positive evidence, there ap
pears to be but this question. The opinions
of all the members known in Congress- In the
Of debate new views had been presented which have
been received with general APPRECIATION majority of the
committee the advocates of these views and the
Der by whom they presented to the House selected
the chairman. There is nothing improbable out of the
of proceeding in this Indeed the prompt action
Of the committee and of the Congress goes very far
firm it,
On the th of July, (two days after the reference Mr.
Darlington reported the ordinance for the government of the
territory of the United States northwest the river Ohio
This ordinance read second time the 18th, (and
amended, as stated below y and on the 18th read
third tme and passed by the unanimous of the eight
States present in the Congress.
On the passage, the yeas and nays beng required by Mr.
Yates) were follows:
NeU Hampshire. (Absent)
Massachusetts, . Mr.. Holen, aye.
Mr. Dane, aye
Rhode Island 49,. (Absent
Connecticut. =. Absent)
Ne,o York. .. Mr.. Smith, aye
Mr. Haring, aye.
Mr.. Yates aye.
| Ne,c Jersey. -. Mr.. Clarke, aye.
Mr. Schureman, aye.
Pennsylvania (Absent)
DeLa,care $500. :. Mr. Kearney, aye.
Mr.. Mitchell, aye.
Maryland. ..... (Absent.)
Virginia Mr. Grayson, aye.
Mr.. r. H. Lee, aye.
Mr.. Darlington, aye.
North Carolina. Mr. Blount, aye
Mr.. Hawkins, aye.
South Carolina. Mr.. Kean, aye.
Mr.. Huger, aye.
Georgia. ........ Mr.. Few, aye.
Mr. Pierce, aye
appears them that instead of having this ordinance
under elaboration and revision for three years and MONTHS
in fire days passed through all the forms of legislation
the reference the action of the committee, the report the
three readings the discussion and amendment by Con-
gTess, and the final passage.
On the 18th of July Gas above stated) Mr. Dane offered
the following amendment which adopted the sixth Of
the articles Of the compact
Artice the Srth There shall be neither slavery in
voluntary seTvude IN the said territory otherwise than In the
punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted Provided alca That any person escaping into
the same from whom labor service claimed any of the
original States such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and
conveyed the person claiming his her labor service
aforesaid"
This had, part been presented by Mr. Jefferson in 1884,
and again by Mr. King in l7s5 The assertion that this
clause, as exists in the ordinance" proposed
and carried by Mr. King, when neither Jefferson Dane
present." is sngulay incorrect In the proposition submitted
by Mr. King in 1885, (Which afterwards called up
in Congress- there provision for retaining fugitives
and without such provision could have been carried at
all besides the clause, it exists in tho ordinance"
proposed by Mr. Dane the 18th Of July, 1887 and
carried by the unanimous vote of Congress when Mr. King
not present.
Mr. King member Of the Convention for framing the
Federal Constitution He present and voted in the Con-
venion the 18th Of July, 1897 The whole Of that day
occupied in settling the proportion Of representation and
direct taxation which then determined il stands
the Constitution viz: "by adding to the whole number Of
free persons including those bound to service for term Of
years. and excluding Indians taxed, hree,fhs Of all
other persons"
The Congress and the Convention both in session at
the same time in Philadelphia There Of free in
and interchange of opinion between the members Of
the bodies To this may be attributed the adoption
the day Of the clause in the ordinance and the clause
the Constitution