The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
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boundary dispute with Wisconsin,
Illinois, and Indiana. These controver--
sizes greatly complicated the question
of her admission, being resisted as it
was by all the influence of Ohio while
the question of boundary remained
unsettled. At length, June Is, 1866
an act was passed ''to establish the
northern boundary line of the State Of
Ohio, and to provide for the admission
of the State of Michigan into the Union
upon the condition therein expressed
that is, upon the condition of her
adopting the boundary prescribed in the
act.
In September, 1886, under this act,
State convention assembled at Ann
Arbor. 1t decided not to accept the
terms of admission, and appointed q
committee to proceed to Washington
and urge the unconditional admission
OF the State but on December Is, 1886,
another convention, called, not bv
authority, but by parties friendly to
admission upon the terms proposed.
met at Ann Arbor, and adopted the
conditions of the act of June, 1886.
These proceedings greately added to
the complications attending the ques-
ton of her admission. Those of the
second convention We're denounced as
revolutionary, legal, and void-as even
"monstrOus." 1t was cOntended that
Michigan had rejected the conditions
imposed by Congress in the only legal
convention which had met in the State
of .1ciI al
asked: Who called the second cOnven-
ton which had adopted the conditions?
Whom did it represent? The people of
Michigan, or ''the rag-tag and bOb-tail's
of the State? Could Congress recOg-
nize its acts?
Even some of its friends admitted
that the proceedings, in their nature,
were revolutionary, but maintained
that, emanating and receiving their au-
thOrity from the people, they were bind
ing upon the State. Calhoun, William
c. Preston, and others, while opposing
her admission in the form proposed,
commended, from their extreme State
rights view, that by her proceedings
under the act of June IS, 1886, Michi-
gan was State, in fact, from the mo-
ment Of her ratification of it's condi-
tions, and Congress had no right to
traverse her proceedings. It's simple
duty was to declare her a State
Finally, after a prOtracted and acri-
Imonious contest, (January 26, 1872 All
act was passed providing for her admis-
sion, with a preamble which declared
that the delegates of the people in con-
vention had assented to the provisions
of the act of June, 1886. Even under
Isuch circumstances the electoral votes
of Michigan were counted, and reported
in the list of votes as counted, although
the result of the count was announced
in hypothetical form, as in the case
of Missouri.
COLORADO.
At the TWENTY-THIRD COUNT, III
February, 1877, no such objection can
be raised, or, il raised, cannot be enter
tanned by Congress. Colorado, the only
State voting for the first time, had been
for three months a State in the Union
at the date of appointing her electors.
The enabling act of March 3, 1875, pro-
Vidlng for her admission into the Union.
says:
And if majority Of legal votes
shall be cast for said constitution in
said proposed State, the said acting
Governor shall certify the same to the
President of the United States, togeth-
er with copy Of said constitution and
ordinances; WhereupOn it shall be the
duty of the President Of the United
States to issue his proclamation declar-
ing the State admitted into the Union
on an equal footing with the original
States, 2OithOut any further action
sOhGteee'' on the part Of Congress"
On 1.-the first day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
six" the President issued the procla-
nation commanded in the foregoing
law, ending as follows:
Now, therefore, /, Ulysses S. Grant.
President of the United States of Amer
lea, do, in accordance with the proVis.
ions of the aCv of Congress aforesaid.
declare and proclaim the fact that the
conditions imposed by
Congress on the State of Colorado TO
entitle that State to admission into the
Union have been ratified and accepted.
and that the admission Of said State
into the Union is nOa0 complete"
Hence, on the 1st of August, 1876.
three months previous to the appoint
ment of her electors for President and
Vice President of the United States,
Colorado, under the Constitution and
the laws, was State in ''the Union, on
an equal footing with the original
States" Her electors were appointed
and her electoral votes cast according
to law, without faint, question, or
suspicion of malpractice or fraud, and
40 objection can be raised against her
7otes which will not equally apply, and
or like reasons, to the votes of any OF
he original States. The labors of the
PRESENT House, therefore, in the petty
arce of pretending to admit her, is SIM
lily part of the violent Democratic
programme of siezing upon the Presi-