Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-24

/ IN 1854:
On the Ist Of March, 1884, committee consisting of
Mr. Jefferson, Of Virginia. Mr. Chase, Of Maryland and
Mr.. Howell Of Rhode Island, submitted to Congress the
following plan for the temporary government Of the West
ern Territory:
"The committee appointed prepare plan for the tenn
poray of the Western Territory have agreed to
| the following resolutions:
"esored That territory ceded to be coded by in
dvdual States the United States, whatsoever the
shall have been purchased Of the Indian inhabitants and
for sale by the United shall DO formed into ad
diona States bounded in the following manner, nearly
such cesons will admit that is to northwardy and
southwardy by parallels of latitude SO that each State shall
comprehend from south north two degrees OF latitude be-
ginning to the completion of thrtyone degrees
north Of the equator but territory northwardy OF the
degree shall make part oate next oeiow
the Mississippi by that river one and the meridian
the lowest point of the rapids of the Ohio on the other
and those adjoining the east by the same meridian on their
side and their eastern by the meridian OF the
cape of the mouth of the Great Kanawha And the
territory eastward Of this last meridian between the Ohio
Lake Erie, and Pennsylvania shall be one State.
That the settlers within the territory SO to be purchased
and offered for sale SHALL either their own petition or on
the order of Congress- receive authority from them with APP
pontments Of time and place for their free males OF full age
together for the purpose of establishing temporary
to adopt the ana laws OF any one o.
to alteration by their ordinary Legislature and to erect sub
ect to like alteration counties townships Tor the election
of members for their Legislature.
"That such temporary shall only continue in
force any State until it shall have acquired twenty thou
sand inhabitants when giving due proof thereof to Con-
gres they shall receive from them authority with appoint
ments of time and place. to call convention OF representa-
ves to establish permanent constitution ana government
for themselves Provided That both the temporary and
manent be established on these principles as
their basis:
al That they shall forever remain part OF the United
States of America.
90 That in their persons property, and territory they
shall be subject the Government OF the United States In
Congress assembled and to the Articles of Confederation
in all those in which the original States shall be SO
subject
49, That they shall be subject pay part Of the Federal
debts, contracted
by Congress according to the rule and
measure by which apporonmens thereof shall be made on
a. That their respective shall be in republ
can forms, and shall admit to be citizen who holds
any hereditary title.
@ after the year 1900 of the Christian there shall
be neither slavery involuntary servitude in any OF the
said States otherwise than in punishment of crimes whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted to have been per-
sonally guilty.
Tha whenever any of the said States shall have of free
inhabitants shall then be in any OF the least
of the thirteen original States each State shall be
admitted by its Delegates into the Congress of the United
States equal footing with the said original States after
which the assent of wothds of the United States in Con-
gress assembled shall be requisite in all those wherein,
by the the assent of nine States is equ
ed provided the of nine States such may
be obtained according the eleventh of the Articles of Con-
federation. Until such admission by their Delegates into
Congress- of the said States after the establishment OF
their temporary government shall have authority to keep
sitting member in Congress- with right Of debating but not
of voting.
"That the territory norhward Of the fifth degree,
that is say the completion of foryve degrees from the
equator and extending to the Lake of the Woods shall be
called pona that of the territory under the forty NTH ana
degrees that which lies westward of Lake Mchi
gam shall be called chgania; and that which is eastward
thereof within the peninsula formed by the lakes and waters
of Michigan Huron Clair Erie shall be called Che
may extend above the fory-dh degree. OF the territory
under the forty third and forty degrees that to the
westward through which the Assensip Rock river
shall be called Asnpa and that to the eastward in which
Ohio the Wabash the Illinois, the Miami of the Lake, and
the Sandusky rivers shall be called Meropotoma OF the
territory which lies under the and orteth degrees
the western through which the river Illinois shall be
called Haoia that next adjoining to the eastward Sarao
ga and that between this last and Pennsylvania and ex
tending from the Ohio to Lake Erie shall be called WASH
ton OF the territory which lies under the thirty ninth and
thrtyeghth degrees which shall be added much Of the
point of land within the fork of the Ohio and Mississippi
lies under the thrysevenh degree that to the westward
within and which the conuences OF the rivers
Wabash. shawanee, Tanisee Ohio illinois, Mississippi and
Missouri shall be called Popotama and that to the east
be called Pehspia.
of compact shall be duly executed by the President of the
United States in Congress assembled under his hand and the
seal of the United States shall be promulgated and shall
stand fundamental conditions between the thirteen original
States and those newly described unateab but the joint
of the United States Congress assembled and Of
the particular State within which such alteration proposed
to be made"
In that plan to organize that Western Territory Ohio
was called Washngton." There also eight other
States described by lines of ATTITUDES and limits; but in
that whole country in those nine States the proposition
ut that early day that after 1900 slavery or in
voluntary servitude should exist know that the article
prohibiting slavery was stricken out subsequently, on
motion Of gentleman from North Carolina and the or
dnance into operation without it for about three
years. and until 1887 but in 1877 the ordinance OF that
date adopted excluding slavery from the Northwest
Territory and adopted this great principle
of compromise of the conflicting interests of the two
great sections of the country 1t wise act at that
day to enter into that compromise
said yesterday, Mr.. Chairman by the gentleman
from Missouri r BENToN,) and it was, in my opinion,
rightly said that the compromise Of 1920 was but con-
tnuaon of the national feeling the same national
principles that dictated the compromise extending the
line to the territory which then known as the Lou
sana purchase Sir without that spirit of compromise
would have existed a nation and on looking
over the debates of the Convention which framed the
Constitution, the Madison papers especially, 1t will be
how the sectional feeling of the of that day
way accommodate and harmonEe with the various
sections of the Union and to upon the same gene
raj platform which all the States of the Union might
stand band of brothers. union of States under
the wise provision of the glorious Constitution OF the Uni
ted States of America.
venton which framed the Constitution Washington was
there and others whose names might site but has name
tower Of strength. Sherman there and Frank
lin there Men celebrated in political life in both
the Caronas and Virginia there There were some
thirty Todd forty In ALL who gave form of govern
ment under which have grown up to be mighty ma
on which has become the pride of all American citizens
and the admiration of the whole world And ALL in my
humble opinion, based Mr. Chairman, upon the sp-
rt of compromise concession Cancellation, and patriot
ism. If the various sections Of the country had stood
upon their separate interests never should have
had Constitution. The necessity for Cancellation