Identifier: historicalencycl02inbate (find matches)
Title: Historical encyclopedia of Illinois
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897 Selby, Paul, 1825-1913 Kauffman, Horace G Kauffman, Rebecca H
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Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Sauk Valley Community College Learning Resources Center
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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Wis-consin, according as Congress would deem it ex-pedient to let such region remain a part of Illi-nois, or to organize it separately; but if therewere, its southern boundary should be a linedrawn through the southern end of Lake Michi-gan, to-wit, parallel 41° 37. To say, as doesGovernor Ford in his History of Illinois, thatthe Ordinance declared that Congress might or-ganize one or tn-o states in the territory northnf parallel 41 37. but not necessarily of it, isto incorporate into a common English sentencea precision of thought probably never dreamedof by the framers of it, and. doubtless, whollyoutside of their intention. When, upon the admission of Ohio, the changein its boundary w.-is made, slight compared withthat of Illinois—Congress proposed to arbitratethe matter with the people of Michigan Terri-tory, from whom the six-mile wide strip wastaken, by offering them the upper peninsula,upon which proposition the people voted, firstrejecting and afterward accepting it. In the
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(^ Ct-t^X^CAJ MRS. DAVID J. BAKER HISTORY OF OGLE COUXTY. 643 case of Illinois, Wisconsins consent was notasked, notwithstanding, that in section 14 ofthe preamble of the Ordinance, it is solemnly de-clared : The following articles shall be con-sidered as articles of compact between the■original States and the people and states insaid territory, and forever remain unalterable,unless ly comm-on consent. It was to be expected, therefore, that the peo-ple of Wisconsin, feeling dissatisfied at so con-siderable a loss of territory in such a manner,should be heard from. In 1838, the Legislatureof that Territory memorialized (Congress to theeffect that the act of 1818 came directly incollision with and was repugnant to the compactentered into by the original States with peopleand States within this Northwestern Territory.A year later, when a vote was called for upona question of forming a State Constitution, thipeople of the district within Northern Illinoisclaimed by Wisconsin were inyite

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