Communication 19.2 from Dwight Vicente re Resident Population

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140 THE 0113 NORTnwrST IN Tilt 01TRICAN RI'VOLIMnN even without slavery,as a means to these ends.At the Conven- tion,sanctions foT slavery(the three-fifths clause and the slave trade clause)seemed necessary to bring about the same results: protection against emancipation and a Southern majority in the llnuse. in each case the North made the compromises the South demanded, but in Congress, because of the South's mistaken assumptions about the future of the Northwest,an antislavery clause could be included.The fugitive slave clause adopted unanimously by both bodies shows,if not that there svgs a sectional compromise between Congress and Convention, at least that the makers of both Ordinance and Constitution svete ready to compromise the concept that all men are equal. ?'his was the fundamental compromise of 1787. Origins of the American Colonial System Jack F.Chien Fhr American coloninl mystem effectively began with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.Sinre that time all colonial policies of the(miter States,including the recent efforts at commonwealth stahes for Mi,ron rsia,have been madiftcations of the anginal ideas. In this essay Jack F.Ehlers(1916--1(meet the nmlutiem of this famous document through the Continental Congress. Like Paoftssor Berkhofer,F.blm sea the Ordinance as the product of srt,ernl minds and the consequence of a serie.,s of developments in Congress, fie find, Nathan Dane of McLmarhusett,and fnmes Monroe of Virginia mogi- fyingtht Ordinance of I784inton workable colanin hpoliry.hlrraHidrr final product the'Jefferson-Monroe-i)nae rion.- Morem+er,Fbhn discards as unfounded the intrrpretntion that,os lie saps in a footnote, "conspiratorial lnnd spteulntnrs mere behind the orating of the Ordinance of 1787 and that the Ohio Company rrprruart- atives faired Congress to draft thrgovernmental articles the avny it did to senor as a more adjanrt to their land grnb."He does see the po<sihility that the Ohio and Scioto grants may have induced some New Fngland Congressmen to support the Ordinance hrrause these schemes offered a chance for eastern influents in an area supf>osedtp inrlined tnnvrrd the South. For Fbten the 1787 dnrument is not n step backward fime the demo rot r principles of the 1784 ordinance,but rather n constnfrtivr solution to the ambigilrnrs and inadnpiatr earlxrr plara.Of ptntirulm impor(arrre was bane',,insiornce on the inclusion of a list at rit+il liberties and Monror'c prapmnls fora limited number n(pntrnliat state+ and a precise number of inhabitants required fm admission. Fhr Imilcidenre of these developments,combined with congressiana - l usmt ence on the sloe rp prohibition, suggest, in Fhlen the pa,4hility of "logrolling."Nomherr does Fhtrn see any indication of a roncpnarp betawen Congress in Non+Fork and the delegation ar the Cnnveatimr ire Philadelphia that Lynd dtsr"bes in the pre'hnu essay. pro/punr Ehlrn's rareer has involved history teorhnr,g acsi,gnwerrt,nt 441