Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-17
THE Los ANGELES JANUARY H. 1892


is now governed by congressional COM
mittee.
The state of North Carolina was, under
section 8 of article ~ of the national
constitution. divided in 1870, and her
western territory thus cut off became
the state of Tennessee, Ia 1895. Here
was the only instance in American his
tory of the death of state. North
Cardinals title to the country "beyond
the mountains" rested ON the charter
given her by King Charles III. In 1884,
before the national constitution was
ratified, North Carolina ceded her west
ern territory to the United States. In
August of that year, the people in the
separated portion proclaimed their in
dependence of North Carolina, and estab-
lished the state of Franklin, mentioned
as ''Frankland" by Mr.. Martin, of Mary
land, in his speech before the federal
constitutional convention at Philadel-
phia. In 1855 North Carolina repealed
the act of cession. and three years later
(178S) the state of Franklin, which had
lived four years, died, and North Caro-
lima again assumed jurisdiction over the
territory of the defunct state. In 1870,
agreeable to that clause of the national
constitution for the ''dismembering of
large states the state of North Caro-
lima was divided, and the territory OF
the deceased state of Franklin became
six years later Gin 1796) the state OF
Tennessee.
The state OF Virginia was again di-
vided, this time in 1892; the separated
territory becoming the state of Ken
lucky.
The new charter granted by King
James l. to the Southern Colony of
Virginia. on May 23, 1909, fixed its
boundaries from 200 miles north of Old
Point Comfort to the same distance
south, and extended from the Atlantic
to the Pacific ocean. CSee McCarty's
Annual Statistician, 1887, page 110.)
Says the American encyclopedia:
SIN 1916 Kentucky was made county
of Virginia Richmond, Va,
the capital, was too far distant to be re-
lied on for assistance in times OF need,
and hence the conventions held in Dan
vile in 1784-5, recommended a peace
able and constitutional separation from
| Virginia. The third convention sent a
petition to Richmond, and in 1885 an act
was passed by the Virginia legislature
complying with the desires of Kentucky,
but for several causes the separation
was not completed. The
question was determined by Kentucky
becoming in 1890 separate territory,
and its admission into the union on
June l, 1892"
Thus, the state OF Virginia, which
| had ratified the national constitution on
June 25, 1888, including the clause for
the "dismembering of large states,"
had twice been divided in accordance
Herewith. The first division was for
the creation of the District of Columbia,
and the second was for the state of Ken
lucky. The desire of certain minor.
| ity III the latter state for republic
independent of the United States, and
certain ugly rumors about an alleged
alliance with Spain, prevented its OBJ
tanning separation in 1855. But
for these reasons Kentucky might
have partaken in the federal constitu-
tional convention of 1887. Observe the
legal acts by which the county of Ken
lucky separated itself from its mother
state and became an independent state:
First, convention met at Danville ID
1885 and petitioned thesstate Legislature
for division of the state. Second. the
legislature of the state of Virginia in
1876 passed an act dividing the state,
agreeably to the petition of Kentucky
county. The conspiracy with the Span
iards delayed matters a few years, but
as soon as public confidence was re-
stored application was made to congress
for admission as state, on December 9.
1890, and on February 4, 1871, congress
passed an act consenting to the admis-
sion of the state OF Kentucky into the
union, and it was admitted by the proc
lamation of the president June /, 1892.
Every provision of the national consti-
tation was carefully followed.
A division of the state OF Connecticut
occurred in 1894 Connecticut was orig
inally included in the charter OF Massa-
chusetts. The Plymouth company, by
patent granted by King James l, had
title to all the lands between the 40th
and 4Sth parallels of north latitude, and
extending from sea to sea Ibid, page
1l1.)
The colony of Connecticut purchased
the rights of the patentees in 1914 foi
e7000, or $35, 900. The state of Connec-
ticut ratified the national constitution
on January 8, 1888. Its delegates, Roger
Sherman and William Samuel Johnson,
participated in the debate in the fed
eral convention on section of article ~.
Sherman thought it unnecessary to
enact law that a sovereign state could
not be divided without its consent, and
johnson obtained an amendment to
help Vermont. Both Sherman and
johnson voted for the section 3.
Before this, however, Connecticut had
ceded to the United States a portion OF
her western territory between the 41st
and 42nd and 2 minutes parallel OF
north latitude, and west of north and
south line l20 miles west of the present
western boundary of the state of Penn.
sylvania. The part retained is still
known as the western reserve" and is
now the northeastern portion OF the
state of Ohio. Its area was 3,666,92
acres. (See Brit. Eneyc.)
In 1892 Connecticut gave BOO, 600 acres
OF her western reserve to her ex-revolu-
tionary soldiers, and in 1895 agreed with
the United ~tates to be forever divided
from the remainder of her reserve for
the sum of 81 200, 200, thirty four times
more than what she originally paid for
all her territory Isl years before. Con-
necticut was success in the zeal estate
btlsi siness.
More than four years before the ratifi-
cation of the national constitution. V1r-
ginia mad ceded to the United States q
large share OF her western territory, but
had reserved 3,709.S48 acres in Ohio,
between the Scioto and the Little hiami
rivers, and from their sources to the