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Disputes

(without common consent) the southern boundaries of Michigan
and Wisconsin. Notwithstanding this plain provision of the
ordinances, [and law] which is declared to be "articles of
compact between the original states and the people
and states in the said territory, and forever to remain
unalterable unless by common consent", yet Congress,
in establishing the boundaries of the State of Illinois,
extended that state about sixty miles north of the line
thus unalterably established by the Ordinance. This
is claimed to be obviously unjust and contrary to the spirit
and letter of the compact with the original states. The
subject of reclaiming this portion of our territory has been
agitated in the Legislative Assembly and it is
probable that Wisconsin will visit upon her
rights when she is admitted into the Union as an
independent state. Michigan was compelled by
superior influence to the submit to a compromise
by which she obtained, besides other valuable considerations, a much larger portion of