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Things In Texas

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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We perceive by the Texas National Register, that the convention for the formation of a Constitution had some difficulty in ndjusting the basis of representation. The Legislative Commitlee recommended as the basis, the qualified electors. In Committee of the Whole this was stricken out, and "free white popu tion" inserted. After discussing the amendment some two days, it was referred with the whole question of representation to a Select Committee of three from each great section of the country. The federal basis was advocated, not on the ground of abstract right, but as something demanded for the protection of slavery. It is rather remarkable, that the non-slaveholding interest should beso strong as to succeed in Committee of the Whole, in striking out the clause, qualified electors, and substituting "free white population." Amongthe general provisions, reported by the Committee on Bill of Rights, &c, we notice quite a benelovent one. "Sec. 19. The Legislature shall have power to pass laws prohibiting under such modifications as they may think proper, the separation of families by privite or public sale." Whether this has been ndopted or not, we cannot learn. If it has, Texas has taken a long step in ad vanee of any of the

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Signal of Liberty
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