The Jefferson-Lemen Compact - The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the - Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory - with Related Documents 1781-1818

Project Gutenberg's The Jefferson-Lemen Compact, by Willard C. MacNaul This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 Author: Willard C. MacNaul Release Date: April 29, 2007 [EBook #21251] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JEFFERSON-LEMEN COMPACT *** Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained.] The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 A Paper read before the Chicago Historical Society February 16, 1915 By Willard C. MacNaul The University of Chicago Press 1915 COPYRIGHT BY CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1915 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1.