. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . thority in Congress to pass the en-abling act. Paul Fearing, Representative of the Territory in Congresshad opposed the enabling act as , and urged thatCongress had nothing to do with the arrangements for calling a con-vention. Mr. Griswold of Connecticut had supported Fearing, declar-ing that the act was an usurpation of power by the United States—apower not lielonging to them. The AVayne County people thought thatputting them into Indiana was ruinous, and a Federalist mee
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . thority in Congress to pass the en-abling act. Paul Fearing, Representative of the Territory in Congresshad opposed the enabling act as , and urged thatCongress had nothing to do with the arrangements for calling a con-vention. Mr. Griswold of Connecticut had supported Fearing, declar-ing that the act was an usurpation of power by the United States—apower not lielonging to them. The AVayne County people thought thatputting them into Indiana was ruinous, and a Federalist meeting at -?- St. Clair Papers, Vol. 2, pp. .594-7. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 221 Dayton adopted the following resolution of resistance: We considerthe late law of Coug-ress for the admission of this Territory into theUnion, as far as it relates to the calling a convention and regulating theelection of its members, as an act of legislative usurpation of powerproperly the province of the territorial legislature, bearing a strikingsimilarity to the course of Great Britain imposing laws on the Gov. Artiifr St. Clair(From portrait liy Charles Willson Peale) We view it as unconstitutional, as a bad precedent, and unjust and par-tial as to the representation in the different counties. We wish ourlegislature to be called immediately to pass a law to take the enumera-tion, to call a convention, and to regulate the election of members to thesame, and also the time and place for the meeting. Most of the Fed-eralists who were elected to the convention voted that it was expedientto form a constitution, but Ephraim Cutler was so entirely unrecon- 222 INDIANA AND INDIANANS structed that he voted against it all by himself; and wrote to hisfather congratulating himself on the opportunity to place my feebletestimony against so wicked and tyrannical a proceeding—although Istand alone. As President, Jefferson could not aJford to ignore such resistance tothe authority of the United State
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