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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
he least populous will contain sufficient population for a representative in Congress. Dacotah, Washington, Nevada and Jefferson, are destined soon to be as familiar to us as Kansas and Nebraska. It is well worthy the consideration of the old indicate now, and settle them finally. I propose, then, that we settle the Territorial question on the basis of Mr. Jefferson's proposition reported to Congress in April, 1784--within two months after the Confederation first had any territory to deal with. Mr. Jefferson was one of our greatest Revolutionary statesmen — he was a Virginian — a slaveholder — and especially honored and confided in by Kentucky till his death, which happened forty years afterwards. New York was then a slave the twenty-three members present and voting, though nearly all were from slave States. I propose that we now take up Mr. Jefferson's bill or projected ordinance, adapt and apply it to all the Federal Territories, present and prospective, and thus s<