Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-04-12

they shall forever remain a part of the
United States of America. 9. That,
in their persons, property. and terrific
ry, they shall be subject TO the govern
ment of the United States in Congress
assembled, and TO the articles Of con-
federation in all those cases in which
the original States shall be so subject
8. That they shall be subject TO pay
part of the federal debts contracted TO
be apportioned on them by Congress
according to the same common rule and
measure by which appointments
thereof shall be made on the other
States. d. That their respective gov
ernments shall be in republican forms,
and shall admit no persons to be a citi-
zen who holds a hereditary title. s.
Tint after the year 1900 Of the Chris
tian era, there shall be neither slavery
nor involuntary seruitude IN any Of the
said States, other than IN punishment Of
crimes, ,chereof the party shallhaue been
duly convicted to hare been personally
guilty.
That whenever any Of the States
shall have, Of free inhabitants, as many
as shall then be in any one of the least
numerous of the thirteen original states,
such States shall be admitted by its del
cgates into the Congress of the United
States on an equal footing with the said
original States; after which the assent of
two thirds of the United States in Con-
gress assembled shall be requisite in all
those cases wherein, by the confcdera-
ton, the assen, of nine States is now
required: Provided, the consent Of nine
States to such admission may be OBJ.
tanned according to the eleventh of the
articles Of confederation. Until such
admission, by their delegates into Con.
gress, any of the said States, after the
establishment Of their temporary gov
eminent, shall have authority to keep a
sitting member in Congress, with right
of debating; but not of voting.
That the territory northward Of the
forty-ffth degree, that is TO say, of the
completion of forty-iive degrees from
the equator, and extending to the Lake
of the Woods, shall be called Sylvania.
That of the territory under the for
ty-fourth and forty-fflh degrees tina,
which lies westward of Lake Mich.
gan, shall be called Michigania; and
that which is eastward thereof, within
the peninsula formed by the lakes and
waters of Michigan, Huron, ST. Clair,
and Erie, shall be called Cherronesus,
and shall include any part of the renin-
sua which may extend above the forty
fifth degree.
OF the territory under the forty-third
and forty'second degrees, that to the
westward, through which the Assenis,
ippi or Rock river runs, shall be called
the Assenisippia; and that to the east
ward. in which are the fountains Of the
Muskingum, the two Miamies of the
Ohio, the Wabash, the Illinois, the Mi.
ami of the Lake, and Sandusky rivers,
shall be called Metropotamia.
OF the territory which lies under the
for,y.frst and fortieth degrees. the
western, through which the Illinois
runs shall be called Illinoia; the next adj
joining to the eastward Saratoga; and
that between this last and Pennsylva.
mia, and extending from the Ohio to
Lake Erie, shall be called Washington.
Of the territory which lies under the
thirty-ninth and thirty :eighth degrees;
TO which shall be added SO much of the
point of land within the fork of the
Ohio and Mississippi as lies under the
thirty -seven,h degree, that TO the west
ward. within and adjacent TO which
are the conhuences of the rivers Wa
bash, Shawance, Tenissee, Ohio, Illinois,
Mississippi and Missouri, shall be called
Polypotamia; and that to the eastward;
further up the Ohio, otherwise called
the Polisipi, shall be called Pelisipia.
That the proceeding articles shall be
formed into charter of compact, shall
be duly executed by the President of
the United States in Congress assem-
bled, under his hand and the seal of the
JT-:.oI C,o,o, ,h,u he accommodated