...fide, and without fraud previously formed." Last, and of great historical importance, was the provision that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime." In addition to these provisions for personal liberty, there were exhortations...

...true, however, that as early as July 13, 1787, Congress had declared, in organizing the Horthwest, that: "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. ..." This provision...

...Northwest of the Ohio," the Southern states not having ceded the area south of the river. It was declared that "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall be duly convicted." To this was added the stipulation...

...succeeded in securing for the great " Northwest Territory " the guarantee of freedom in the ordinance that " there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in punishment of crimes." It was adopted two years before the Constitution of the United States went...

...By the terms of the famous "Sixth Article of Compact," contained in that Ordinance, it was declared that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the accused shall have been duly convicted." This looks like a...

...mention, viz.: that of Robert ID Gray, the first solicitor general of the province, whose tragic death is The number of slaves in Upper Canada was also diminished...Ordinance of 1787 "that there shall be neither slavery not involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than as the punishment of crime ' ' was in...

...articles of the Ordinance "which are declared to be irrevocable;'' and among these was the provision that there "shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the - party shall have been duly convicted." If they meant to...

...Union as a state and no longer be under a territorial government. Article six of the ordinance provided that "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; provided, always, that...

...articles of the Ordinance "which are declared to be irrevocable ; ' ' and among these was the provision that there "shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." If they meant to keep...

...for preventing wrongs being done them, and for preserving friendship with them." Article 6 declares that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. This article, however,...