Excerpt from An Appeal to the People of Illinois on the Question of a Convention Under the sacred transcript of univ ersal rights on which the people of the United States founded their constitution, if it had not pre existed in the community. It could not have been introduced: they could not have created slavery; nor can the people of Illinois create it for the same reason. It is. Moreover, expressly prohibited in this State. Not only by our own compact above alluded to, but by the ordinance of Congress pro Viding against its introduction into the North Western Territory or the states formed therefrom; which ordinance is the supreme law of the land, according to article 6 of the constitution of the United States which is as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.