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

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81 time have more q Improved /. By h- .rm.
Irpryvemept eou p.rs Pepo.yivas, Nth Marvspd ana
Ssd,i particularly The later the conclusion Oh
as sse e. in po.ts Of view STRIKING than pl.cs
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49, M they BE- gradually ensncp.d 10 .lro.iy
s,ss tsi.dpr s.ior evil, but to iotrodaee them lot
snsdes vssfe exisioou rres which
pns lie s.rb-e.p he forgiven For God. s.I-
r. Vi ere ehot be nsss to prevent so Terrible se,.
sie,sos md this p'oesbly the only time when the
- ssa eertsiny be prevented"
M earnest, honest, and almost imprisoned appeal
=, ore Who was stil wearing the uniform of SOL
M, Al freedom, who through the trials and pers OF
-. revolutionary war had nobly done his part--feu
-. mon An unwilling heart, for it was within week
sMs date of Mr.. Pickerings letter. that on the 10th
Nh Mr.. King introduced bis provso Of freedom,
ESr;pe esss ntially from that of Mr.. Jefferson in
49, vas of immtdisk and MT prospective spplica-
49,, that il forbade then and forever the existence Of
c.,my in ali the region embraced in the law of 1884;
.h.rs, Mr. Jefferson for planting it there and,
a., IS years OF growth, then eradicatiog. Mr.. X.
sAousbt with Mr. Pickering, that the admission Of
..,ss for day or for an hour into region before
.rempt from it, was not to be endured
ON the 18th Of Aprl-the day after the Grsnd Com
mx,ee of which Mr. King as member had reported
hCoparess the ordinance locating end dspo.iog Of
~ rublic lands which became Law on The Goth M1y
buovisg-Mr. King thus Acknowledges Mr.. Picker
hgsIetttr;
"fss best return in to msts you for your 2s.-
ss conn the mode Of dispcsipg Of the West
IN Territory 10 ineose for examo alton the form OF az
49,; ,.els you tie yeo,t on wilton Tor The ereluon Of
ssyJom ne nev sfofe' Your ide on this subject are 80
jsx TAI would be imposdbie TO offer from them"
OF the report the exclusion Of Slavery here men,
toned no trace is to be found. 1t must refer, one
vsuld tuppose, to The resolution subcnitted by Mr..
Kss im.elf on the 10th of March, and committed on
hss dsy, but no auson in the Journal nor any other
than thus casually in Mr.. Kings letter to Mr.Picker
irg, be- bee found.
But II is certain that Mr. X. did not abate Of his zeal
On the subject and when in Nov, 's5, Nathan Dane
became one Of his colleagues from Massachusetts,
and rev ordinance for governing the Western Ter
rtory came under the consideration Of Congress, as
bss already been related in September, 's6, and in
vsJng shapes occupied its attestion at times through
he residue Of that year aud through the year 1887,
until its Dal adoption 10 July Of the last year it is on
The record Of the journal that Mr.. X. took constant
and earnest part in its discussion. IT. then, in the
ordnance finally adopted shall DO found embodied
specific propositions made by Mr.. X, and by him
only-oBdif 1t shsll appear, as nov am about to
make appear that the authorship of the ordinance
vas Mr.. Danes and not Mr. Jeffersons, as has been
10 long claimed, AID recently with emphatic and con-
fdent argument by Gov Coles, formerly Of Illinois
The deduction would seem legitimate and conclusive
that Mr.. Dane. acting with his colleague, had ac-
cspled and embodied his suggestions in the erdi-
nance.
Let tie chief Of these suggestions be briefly set
forth Fret and meet important is that prohibiting
Slavery. Mr.. Jefersons provi,o was prospective /;
that Of Mr. King, Immediate; the proviso of the Or
diDaDce Of 81 wbs Immediate, and in the identical
words offered by Mr. King, l6th March, 's5, except
that his provso reached to all the territory embraced
in Mr. Jefferons resolutions of April, "a, while that
Of tho ordinance was restricted necessarily perhaps
10 the precise territory which that ordinance WAS
framed to govern. 10 other respects, the language
IL Identical, changing only the words shall have
{" been personally guilty. as used by Mr.. King, to
"sball havo been duly convicted" in the ordinance.
Mr. Dane nowhere appears the record to have
made any motion bmself in Congress, the su ?ect
Of Slavery, and, therefore, finding that of Mr. KING
in IL journals and having it urged upon his atten'
ton doubtless by Mr. X. himself be adopted it as his
owe.
Art III, Of the fund amental articles, thus stip
ulates: Religion, morality. and knO Wedge being
Necessary to good government and the happiness Of
mankind schools, ard the means Of educ alton shall
" forever be encouraged"
OF this there is nothing in the Jefferson resolutions
of April, "a, but the extracts given from Mr.. Pick
sings letters and the Journals Of Congress doring
s5-6 when the land orc under discussion,
- a cartain extent O.
ceesfuly Mr. King labored to Obtain for the purposes
Of education and Of religion, reserved townships in
every range.
And lsst. and hardly perhaps second in Importance
10 the firstthe Proviso Of Freedomof kin, indeed
with it, 10 that proviso, incaculabe in s value as
bond Of UDion-inc slcuisble in its due to CONNER
cisl intercourse and to good neighborhood, which
sipuates that the nsviysbe waters leading into the
I" Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, and the carrying
" plscee between the shail be common highways
" and forever free well to the inhabitants OF the
said territory ss to the czeps Of the United States
and thcse of any other States that may be admitted
into tho Confederacy without any tax, imPost, OF
" duty Ii erefor."
This in the frat instance due to the farreaching
and sta,e.manlike suggestions of Timothy Pickering
and was introduced into Congress by the joint agency
of Virginia and Observation-Disclosures which then
STOOD a. during the war; they had stood shoulder to
shculc er on so many trying occasions. Mr. Picker
ing In letter to Rufus King of stu March, IS, dis
cussipg the ordinance then under the consideration
sf Congress- for regulating the Western Territory,
thus ssgsciously wrtes:
"wsier communications la that country will A~sys be 10
sb hlshest degree Interesting the inhsbso Ii seems
to edom Of navigating these TO alt
The ipaG OF all the States hope soal have no
Schelcp in this eoueuy
So wise suggestion was not lost upon his cores
nondept. AID, accordingly on the 10th March, 1856