The movement for statehood, 1845-1846

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. [4], 545 pages : 25 cm "1250 copies printed"--Verso t.p Includes index Part I: Some General Observations: The Admission of Wisconsin to Statehood -- Wisconsin , a Constitution of Democracy -- Part II: Message of Govenor Dodge to the Legislative Assembly, January 6, 1846 -- Report of Select Joint Committee on State Government -- Assembly Resolutions Concerning Statehood -- Debate in the House of Representatives, January 8, 1846 -- Debate in the House of Representatives, January 21, 1846 -- Debate in the House of Representatives, January 24, 1846 -- Proceedings in the Council, January 16, 1846 -- Debate in the Council January 17, 1846 -- An Act in Relation to the Formation of a State Government in Wisconsin -- Apportionment of Delegates -- House Debate, June 8, 1846 -- House Debate, June 9, 1846 -- House Debate, June 10, 1846 -- The Wisconsin Enabling Act -- Part III: Selection from the Madison Express -- Public Opinion Favors Statehood -- Views of "K" No. 1 -- Views of "K" No. 2 -- Concordia's Views on the Election of Judges -- Whig Nominations -- Declaration of Whig Principles -- What Locofocos Can't Understand -- The Issue -- Who Is the Aristocrat -- Free Suffrage -- John Y. Smith Denounced -- A Voter States his Views -- The Election -- It's Results -- Selections from the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette: The Power of Borrowing Money -- Taxation -- Borrowing Money -- Views of "R" Concerning the Constitutional Convention -- Leters of Jefferson -- No. 1 -- Letters of Jefferson No. 2 -- Universal Education -- Views of "R" on Capital Punishment Answered -- Appeals to Foreigners -- Tactics of the Enemy -- Letters of Jefferson -- No. 3 -- The Wisconsin Demacracy's Love for the Irish -- The Constitutional Convention -- The Recent Election -- Capital and Currency -- The Banking System in New York -- Selections from the Milwaukee Courier: State Government -- E