 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1837 - 330 strani
...improvement of the country. On the contrary, the Congress of the Confederation in the third article of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest territory, declares that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 488 strani
...piety, that one must travel far, very far, to find his equal ; " 3 Nathan Dane, of Beverly, the father of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the north-west territory, and the author of a Digest of the Common Law, still England as " a nest of reptiles, brood- the consequences... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 strani
...slavery, an incidental allusion by Mr. Webster to the beneficial results of the slavery prohibition in the ordinance of 1787 for the Government of the North-west territory, and the energy which freedom imparted to colonization, brought Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina, to the floor on... | |
 | 1882 - 634 strani
...which had been delivered to him by the client, who was charged with having forged them. So in Anon. (8 Mass. 370), the Hon. Nathan Dane, a very distinguished...of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the NW Territory, and the founder of the Harvard Law School, was subpoenaed to produce before the grand... | |
 | 1884 - 1912 strani
...on account of such navigation. This clause had its origin in the fourth of the articles of compact of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest territory, in which it was provided that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence,... | |
 | 1884 - 1006 strani
...on account of such navigation. This clause had its origin in the fourth of the articles of compact of the ordinance of 1787, for the government of the north-west territory, in which it was provided that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence,... | |
 | William Addison Phillips - 1886 - 508 strani
...whatever they conferred, contained nothing in them giving eminent domain to Congress. The provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory were new and bold expedients, both adopted before Congress was governed by constitutional limitations,... | |
 | 1887 - 1090 strani
...recognized in this state as applicable to riparian proprietors. The argument of the plaintiff, based upon the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory, and the act of congress admitting Michigan as a state in the Union, together with the ordinance of July 25,... | |
 | 1887 - 440 strani
...Manasseh Cutler." and says that lie cannot agree with the views therein expressed, " that in the formation of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory Dr. Cutler rendered an all-important influence." Later in the pamphlet Nathan Dane is quoted and relied... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1889 - 468 strani
...applied to Congress for the purchase of a tract of land. The application quickened Congress to pass The Ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwest Territory and to pass it with the clause against slavery (July 13). In October, all the land sold that year, nearly... | |
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It reproduced the historic words of the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory and gave them unrestricted application within the United States and all placrs subject to their jurisdiction. 
