The Ordinance of July 13, 1787
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Excerpt from The Ordinance of July 13, 1787: For the Government of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio; A Paper Read Before the Ohio State Historical and Archæological Society, February 23d, 1887 The intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July, 1787, "for the Government of the Territory North-west of the river Ohio," have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience. Its merits can now be measured by its fruits. Results are its monument and its highest eulogy. It is not surprising that as a century is rounded up, the thoughtful inquirer should look back and endeavor to trace the beginnings and look up the extrinsic circumstances as well as personalities that were connected with such an enactment. So far as organic law is concerned we are sitting under "vines and fig trees," are "eating of the oliveyards and vineyards that we planted not." Who were the planters? Why was the planting done? In pursuing this inquiry we are met with the difficulty arising from a lack of authentic historic material. One hundred years ago the proceedings of legislative bodies were not kept with that plethora of discussion, and detail of motions, references and reports that distinguish modern Congressional Records. The wasting processes of a century have destroyed valuable family papers, and memories of early actors and listeners have faded out, so that fragments of fact, incident and history must be gathered up and carefully applied. Still the gleaner must be content with a gleaner´s share of the harvest. The passage of the Ordinance at the time has one peculiar characteristic that is worthy of notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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