. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . ese and of Virginias acts relative tothe cession of the territory to the United Statesmay be found in the Legislative and State Man-ual for 1899-1900. For some reason, pi-obablyoversight, the legislative memorial asking for theEnabling Act is not included in this volume, butit may be found in large part in Dillon, p. references are given because more acces-sible than the Federal and State documents. THE CONSTITU
. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . ese and of Virginias acts relative tothe cession of the territory to the United Statesmay be found in the Legislative and State Man-ual for 1899-1900. For some reason, pi-obablyoversight, the legislative memorial asking for theEnabling Act is not included in this volume, butit may be found in large part in Dillon, p. references are given because more acces-sible than the Federal and State documents. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Members of the Convention.— ihe spectaclein history of a grou[) of men entrusted to createan instrument that is to give shape and directionthroughout the future to a sovereign State, isan interesting one. For the purpose of framinga constitution (if deemed desirable) Indianaelected forty-three delegates from the thirteencounties that were stretched across the southernpart of the State from Knox to Thesedelegates represented a mixed ])opulation ofabout 64,000, hailing from a numljer of State>east and south. Like the jjoimlaiion, the dele-. Seal of the State. (See page 193.) gates were also of mixed character. At least afew of them were men of education and notableability; of the major ])art of them we know butlittle todav, and some, we know, were vniedu-cated, but men of sturdy intelligence and goodsense. The most trustworthy characterization ofthem that we have is by John l^illon. who,when be wrote, was more than a half ceniurvnearer to that generation. He says: The con\enlion that formed tlie lirst consti-tution of the State of Indiana was composed,mainlv, of clear-minded, unpretending men otcommon sense, whose i)atriotisin was un(|uestion-able and ^e morals were fair. Their faniil-iaritv with the theories of the Declaration of 72 CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA American Independence, their territorial experi- returns in 1815)
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