 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 582 pages
...association, at a meeting to be called for that purpose, previous to their beginning the settlement, — " the total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the constitution"; that the State so constituted should be admitted into the confederacy of the United States ; that delegates... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Indians of North America - 1881 - 640 pages
...Timotby Pickering, in 1786. devised a plan for the formation of a new State west of the Ohio river — " the total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution." i And we have seen how he moved Rufus King to offer a resolution proposing a compact inhibiting slavery... | |
 | Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 pages
...two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution. »*»»»»»«» "15. That, the associators having borne together as brethren the dangers and calamities... | |
 | Archaeology - 1900 - 536 pages
...two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the state to form...essential and irrevocable part of the constitution. "12. That the associators so assembled agree on such general rules as they shall deem necessary for... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - Northwest, Old - 1888 - 558 pages
...prohibition in the Ordinance of July 13, 1787, the attempt was made, under the auspices of Jefferson, at the time of the adoption of the first constitution...anti-slavery feature of the governmental plan must have been discussed and understood at the time. The officers must have known of it, and approved it,... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - History - 1888 - 484 pages
...establishment of a sort of brotherhood community of soldiers, the most important political provision being, " The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution." l Possibly this project may have influenced Jefferson in drafting his ordinance, as there was certainly... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - Northwest, Old - 1888 - 554 pages
...two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution. 12. That the associators, so assembled, agree on such general rules us they shall deem necessary for... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1888 - 884 pages
...many of the points in our ordinance. The one as to slavery was certainly there. The language was : " The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution." This, remember, was in the spring of 1783, twelve months before the plan reported in April, 1784, by... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1888 - 566 pages
...two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution." "(12). That the associators, so assembled, agree on such general rules as they shall deem necessary... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Northwest, Old - 1888 - 484 pages
...important link in the history of the Ohio Company, when told at length, contained this language : " The total exclusion of slavery from the State to form...essential and irrevocable part of the Constitution." The editors of the "Life of Rev. Manasseh Cutler" present convincing evidence that Dr. Cutler was the... | |
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Ammunition to be supplied in the same way. 11. That a Constitution for the new State be formed by the members of the association previous to their commencing the settlement, two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose... 
