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State Government

Wisconsin has now a population sufficient to entitle her to claim an admission into the Union, as an independent state, on an equal footing with the other original states; that population being fixed by the ordinance of 1787, at sixty thousand; but the people are so well satisfied with their present situation that [not] very little interest is felt on this subject. Governor Doty has, on two occasions, issued his proclomation requesting the people at their general election to vote for or against a state government, but very few of the people have taken the trouble to express their views on the subject in this way. It is probable however that this state of things will not last long and Wisconsin will soon take her place among the glorious Thirteen.

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