...the government of the Territory northwest of the river Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and ead over to them, that they might see in what words...their hands, no man dissenting. Query П. — Where The Constitution of the United States, after setting forth in the Preamble in words of sublime import...

...Constitution was not formed when the celebrated ordinance of 1787 was passed. That ordinance provided that, " Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged;" and by the ordinance of 1785 for the survey of public lands in the Northwestern Territory, Section...

..." RELIGION, MORALITE and KNOWLEDGE being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, SCHOOLS, AND THE MEANS OF EDUCATION, SHALL BE FOREVER...extended, till its blessings now reach even the distant shore -, of the Pacific, and FIFTY MILLIONS OF ACHE.. of the public domain have been set apart am....

...Ohio is about one-sixth part of the Northwest Territory. The celebrated ordinance of 1787 provided that, "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." The Act admitting Ohio to the sisterhood of States took effect November 20, 1802. The Constitution...

...KNOWLEDGE being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, SCHOOLS, AND THE MEANS OK EDUCATION, SHALL BE FOREVER ENCOURAGED." From that...the present, this noble policy has been confirmed und extended, till its blessings now- reach even the distant shore* of the Pacific, and FIFTV MILLIONS...

...township for the maintenance of public schools, basing their action upon the memorable declaration, that "Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Under this, and subsequent similar grants, an aggregate of not less than 140,000,ooo acres of land...

...prompting this liberal grant to the public schools is expressed in the declaration of the ordinance that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means of education shall be forever encouraged." From the passage of this act in 1787 to the year 1848 a similar provision for public education, with one...

...set apart the sixteenth section (640 acres) of every township for common school purposes, and wisely declared that " religion, morality and knowledge being...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be ever encouraged." Fourteen of the States received school lands under this ordinance. The ordinance...

...every township " for maintaining public schools ; and in making this generous provision, stipulated that " religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...means. of education shall be forever encouraged." In 1848, when Oregon was organized as a Territory (p. 209), the " thirty-sixth section "was also set...

...press, the right of habeas corpus or of trial by jury, or the equal distribution of estates. The clause that ' religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged,' was not there." These omissions were the New England ideas, which had long before this been engrafted...