New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-28

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hs,s directed the Board to examine and report upon
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spd having psd no Other act Of nposncs excsp, what
p,s,ume You have respecting the i.ns Of
how like colleagues svdsewiet you know ws ali
Thatcher quite upsoqusnied With q" na. fnes
whether Mr. Otis his perCd Of life and uuder his msor
with Il. Uaon ss sea. wish his
Noihks more u orh particular notice.
Your sfeetionate hiend N. DANE
PS States Pre.ent: M....chu.eta Eew.Yors. N.wJer.
Delaware teiss North csroiina Sou,h CaroIip, aud
0eorss Brother Holten rather invalid; sble to
good Eastern politics
This letter, nov for the fret time made public, was
written, it will be seen, three days only after the
passing Of the famous ordinance before there was
sby controversy about it, and without consciousness
20 far as the modest tenor Of the whole letter an
witness Of the priceless value of the act thus perfect
ed The course OF the preparation discussion and
final adoption Of the ordinance is related With eotre
simplicity. No doubt therefore, now be enter
talDed that Mr.. Dane did frame the ordin suce
throughout that it it he who dire tied the mode
of pre- senting the House and carrying it through
all its stages.
Mr. Darlington, Of Va. named first on the Conn
tee, and, therefore. by usage its Chairman, did not,
appears by this letter, agree with the majority Of
the Committee, and, therefore, probably declined to
report the ordinance, devolvipg that duty on Mr..
Dane who stood next on the list, and who was in
tie majority. Ths expsins, what heretofore has not
been updertocd how Mr.. Dane. the second on the
Committee came to be it's reporter; aud the almost
literal accuracy is hereby established Of the account
given by Done Webster, in his Grafton against
Hayne on the Foot resolutions, in the U. S. Senate
in 49,, that this ordinance twas drawn by Nah IN
Dane, and adopted by Congress without the slight
est alteration" "a few words excepted" says
Mr. Dene, /" and the ordinance passed as originally
"formed it,"
Having thus established the concusiveness Of the
claim Of autho, ship Of the Ordinance Of 81 for
Nahsn Dane, and shown that to Rufus King aud
indirtctly to Timothy Pickering. belongs the sug-
geston OF the provisos contained in against very
end for aids to religion and knowledge and for
assuring forever the common use, without charge, of
tie great national highways Of the Mississippi, the
ST. Lawrence and their tributaries and their carry
ing-paces to all citizens Of the United States, and
having, at the same tine by spreading in extenso
before the readers of this chapter, both tue resolution
of Mr.. Jefferson Of April a. and tle Ordinance OF
s7 put it within their h to compare these nstra.
me nts ard thus ascertain how much Of one is bor-
r,wed from, or lie suggested by the othes-t msy be
ssid in conclusion That in endeavorng to assign to
each of the prominent actors 10 this great his
due merit and responsibility desire has been felt
nor il is hoped, manifested even unco0.ciously-of
magb, ing any at the expense Of others. Enough
of ne e2utaion for each aud ALL must forever
honor the names Of Dane and Jefferson, and Picker
ing and King, for the part taken by each in the long,
laborous and evehtu struggle which had so glorious
a consumn alton in the ordinance eonsecratng for
ever. by one inprescr'ptible and uucbsogeable
mur iren mt, the very Heart Of our land to Freedom,
Kno xlecge and Union.
The Ordnance Of 81, adopted on 18th July.
Thse initials refer possibly to the plan proposed By Mr.
Nc nioe.
tRefeis to shs1's rebellion.