...claim, under the ordinance of 1787, to the territory in dispute. That ordinance established certain articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, which were to remain forever unalterable...

...consistent with the general interest : It is hereby ordained and declared, _by the authority aforesaid, That the following Articles shall be considered as...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ART. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever...

...to the Legislature to appoint a delegate to Congress. It then proceeds to state certain fundamental articles of compact between the original States, and the people and States in the Territory, which are to remain unalterable, unless by common consent. The first provides for the freedom...

...consistent with the general interest: It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid. That the following articles shall be considered as...territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ART. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever...

...constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity with the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred...

...northwest of the river Ohio. This was enacted, as it asserts, among other things, to establish " certain articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory, to remain forever unalterable, unless by common consent." One of these articles of compact...

...river Ohio, passed by congress on the 13th day of July, 1787, that certain articles therein contained " shall be considered as articles of compact between...territory, and forever remain unalterable unless by common consent;" And whereas it is stipulated in and by the 5th of the said articles of compact, that there...

...drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." And it was further provided, that the " articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states in the said territory, should for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent." Wisconsin, therefore, claims all that...

...Congress, who was to have a seat therein, and the privilege of debating, but not of voting. Certain other articles of compact between the original States, and the people and States, in the Northwestern Territory, were also incorporated into said ordinance, and were " to remain for ever unalterable,...

...consistent with the general interest : It is hereby ordatned and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as...territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : Article I. No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever...