...a loss to see how the Senate could reject a proposition, in itself so just. The ordinance of July, 1787, for the government of the Territory northwest of the Ohio river, may be called the foundation of good government in that country. This ordinance provides the means...

...provisions of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, and the sixth article of the ordinance of congress of 1787, for the government of the territory north-west of the Ohio. Slaves being considered property, it has been said, an immediate abolition act like that of New York,...

...New-England Confederacy of 1643; 3 Kent. Comm. 190, 191, 192; Ruwle on Const. Introduct. p. '24, 25.— In the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the territory northwest of the Ohio, certain articles were expressly declared to be " articles of compact between the original states, [ie...

...provisions of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the sixth article, of the ordinance of congress of 1787, for the government of the territory northwest of the Ohio, were immediate, in the sense that they communicated freedom to those previous to, and at the time of...

...now succinctly state. I. The Territory of Michigan, according to the ordinance of the 13th of July, 1787, for the government of the Territory northwest of the Ohio river, was entitled to be admitted into the Union, as one of the confederate States, when she contained a...

...New England Confederacy of 1643; 3 Kent. Comm. 190, 191, 192; Rawle on Const. Introduct. p. 24, 25. In the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the territory northwest of the Ohio, certain articles were expressly declared to be " articles of compact between the original states, [ie...

...May 7th, 1800, to take effect on the 4th July following: with all the rights and privileges which, by the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, had been secured to the settlers of the northwest. The act of 1 804, which annexed Louisiana to Indiana,...

...State, infants have always been prohibited by statute from conveying their lands, either by deed or wilK The ordinance of 1787, for the government of the territory northwest of the Ohio, provides, that real estates may be conveyed, or devised, by the person in whom the estate may be, being...

...subject as her Legislature has deemed politic and wise. The rule adopted in this State, was indicated in the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio. As enacted by the Legislature, it is substantially the same as that in the State...

...men, the novel theory of the slavery-propagandists is maintained. Precedents there are in abundance. The ordinance of 1787, for the government of the territory north-west of the Ohio, provides that " there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in said territory, otherwise...