The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1859-09-28

as many as shall then be in any one of
the least numerous Of the thirteen States,
such State shall be admitted by its dele
gates into the Congress of the United
States on on equal footing with the said
original States"
Aud
until such admission by their dele
gates into Congress any of the said States,
after the establishment of their temporary
shall have authority to keep
a sitting member in Congress. with the
right of debating but not of voting"
Attached to the provision which ap-
pears in this paper under the "third" head
is q proviso, containing five propositions,
which, when agreed to and accepted by
the people of said additional States, were
to "be formed into charter of compact"
and to remain forever "unalterable," ex-
cept by the consent of such States as we'll
ss of the United States-to wit:
"Provided that both the temporary and
permanent governments be established on
these principles as their basis"
"lst.-"That they shall forever re-
main part of the United States of Amer
ics."
2&-"That In their persons. property.
and territory they shall be subject to the
government Of the United States in Con-
gress assembled, and to the Articles of
Confederation in all those cases in which
the original States shall be SO subject"
3d.-"That they shall be subject to
pay part of the federal debts contracted
or to be contracted-to be apportioned
on them by Congress according to the
same common rule and measure by which
apportionmeuts thereof shall be made on
tho other States"
4M.-"That their respective govern
ments shall be in republican form, and
shall admit no person to be citizen who
holds any hereditary title"
The 6fth article, which relates to the
prohibition of slavery after the year 800,
having been rejected bv Congress, never
became part of the Jeffersonian Plan oi
Government for the territories, as adopt
ed April %. 1884.
The concluding paragraph Of this Plan
of Government which emphatically ig.
nores the right Of Congress to bind the
people of the Territories without their
consent, and recognizes the people there
in as the true source of all Legitimate
power in respect to their internal polity
is in these words:
"That all the preceding articles shall
be formed icto charter 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 shal
stand as fundamental conditions between
the thirteen original States and thos,
newly described, unalte:able but by tn
joint consent of the United States in Con
gress assembled. and OF the particula
State within which such alteration is pro
posed to be made"
This Jeffersonian Plan of Governmen
embodies and carries out the ideas an,
principles of the fathers of the Revolutio
that the people of every separate po
litical community dependent colonies
Provinces, and Territories as we'll as sove
reign States) have an inalienable righ
to govern themselves in respect to thei
internal polity, and repudiates the dogm
of the British Ministry and the Tories q
that day that all colonies, Provinces, on
Territories were the property of the En-
pire, acquired with the common 4bloo
, and common treasure, and that the inhab
itauts thereof have no rights, privileges
! or immunities except such as the Impe
rial government should graciously conde
, scend to bestow upon them. This Pla
J recognizes by law and irrevocable "com
, pact" the existence of two distinct classe
of States under our American system {
governmest-the one being members {
} the Union, and consisting of the origin'
thirteen and such other States, having tt
} requisite population. as Congress shoul
, adnit into the Federal Union, with a
equal vote in the management of Feder
| affairs a. well as the exclusive power
} regard to their internal polity respective
ly--the other. not having the requisi
: population for admission into the Unio
7 could have no vote or agency in the col
J troll Of the Federal relations, but possess
! ed the same exclusive power over the
| domestic affairs and internal policy r.
: spectively as the original States, with tt
3 right, while they have less than twen'
: thousand Inhabitants, to choose for the
!. government the Constitution and laws
any one of the original States; and whe
: they should have more than twenty thou
e end, but less than the number required
= entitle them to admission into the Unio
n they were authorized to form for then
selves "a permanent Constitution ar
It government" and in either case they we
s entitled to keep delegate in Congre
: with the right of debating but not Of VI
f ting This "Chsrter of Compact" vii
y its FUNDAMENTAL oonditions," which we
|. declared to be "unalterable" without tt
i 'joint consent" of the people intereste
Q in them, as we'll as of the United State
D thus stood on the statue book unrepeale