I know that thissubject has been so fully discussed that for an obscure individual to advance a new theory about it is like setting up against fate almost. and yet I believe that the clause of the Constitution to which the power to govern the Territories is properly traced is the power of Congress to admit new States. The Constitution was formed when the whole country away from the seaboard was a wilderness. it was territory. it was public land. and without people. citizens of the United States. Those portions of the country would be filled up by gradual emigration. Ohio for instance. so of Indiana. so of Wisconsin. and the other Territories. Emigration tending westward would produce the result of a certain number of individuals settling within certain lines of territory. If that was to be made a new State. and Cougress had the power to admit it as such under the Constitution. something must be done to prepare it for that condition. Congress cannot admit Territories. it admits nothing but States. and a State cannot be organized without some legal provision from some source allowing it to be organized as a State.
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