In accordance to the provisions of a
law passed at the last session of the
Legislative Assembly, the Conven
tion, elected by the people of the Ter
ritory, have assembled and framed a
Constitution for the State of Wiscon
sin, which has been submitted by them
to the Congress of the United States,
and to the people of the Territory for
their acceptance or rejection. The
admission of Wisconsin as a State in
to the Union will be ‘the means of
promoting the best interests of the peo
ple from Territorial dependence,
they will assume the powers of a sov
ereign State; they will be represent! d
in both Houses of Congress, where
they will have a voice and a vote in
the Councils of the Republic. They
will participate in all the advantages
of a Government created by them
selves— founded on the equal rights of
all—when all public functionaries
will be immediately responsible to
them—and w hen their expressed will
at the ballot box will be the supreme
law of the State. The donation of
500,000 acres of land, to which the
State will be entitled under the pro
visions of an act of Congress, entitled
“An act to appropriate the proceeds of
the sales of the public lands, and to
grant pre-emption rights,” approved
September 4, 1841; also five per cent,
on the nett proceeds of the public
lands lying in the State, to which she ,
will bo entitled on her admission into
the Union—with the lands granted by ,
Congress tor schools and a university
—if properly applied will add greatly
to the prosperity of the State.
