The Ordinance of 1787 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Ordinance of 1787
In the April number of this magazine for the year 1888 we printed some extracts from the "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Manasseh Cutler, " describing his visit to New York and Philadelphia in the year 1787, and took occasion to say that we could not agree with the views expressed elsewhere in the volumes, that in the formation of the Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest territory Dr....