History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . he earnestly desired the admission of the Territory. He thought itbest, however, to ascertain from members of Congress what steps thatbody would consider necessary to be taken. Up to this time, noTerritory of the United States had been admitted into the Union, andstatesmen differed as to what would be the correct mode of James White, the territorial delegate, after canvassing the matterprivately, reached the conclusion that Congress could not be inducedto act in advance of an application on the part of the Territory. He The
History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . he earnestly desired the admission of the Territory. He thought itbest, however, to ascertain from members of Congress what steps thatbody would consider necessary to be taken. Up to this time, noTerritory of the United States had been admitted into the Union, andstatesmen differed as to what would be the correct mode of James White, the territorial delegate, after canvassing the matterprivately, reached the conclusion that Congress could not be inducedto act in advance of an application on the part of the Territory. He The Southwest Territory. 12^ thought, if the people wished to be admitted into the Union, theproper procedure would be to call a convention for the purpose offraming a constitution, to take effect as soon as Congress should passan act of admission. 196, Governor Blount Calls the Assembly emi- \p — From Imlay. nently wise suggestion determined the governors course. Immedi-ately upon its receipt, he issued a proclamation calling an extraor-dinary session of the Assembly. Under this proclamation theAssembly met at Knoxville, on the last Monday in June, 1795, andpassed an act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of theTerritory. It authorized the governor, in the event such enumera-tion should disclose sixty thousand inhabitants, to call a conventionfor the purpose of framing a constitution for the permanent govern- 124 History of Tennessee. ment of the State. But recognizing that the Territory might befound to contain less than sixty thousand inhabitants, the officers tak-ing the enumeration were directed to ascertain whether or not, inthat event, it was the desire of the people that the Territory should beadmitted as a State with such less number. From this enumerationit appeared that the Territory contained more than sixty-six thousandfree inhabitants, and above ten thousand sla
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