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.) Attention was now turned to the admission of Orleans Territory as the State of Louisiana. Mr. John Poydras, the delegate from Orleans Territory, presented a petition from the Territorial legislature praying admission as a State. This petition was referred to a committee of which Mr. Macon was chairman, and a bill for this purpose was presented by the committee December 27th. It was amended and debated in its several stages January 2d, 4th and 10th, and was put on its final passage January 14th, and after a debate of much sectional bitterness, reviving the old constitutional questions of 1803, was finally passed by the House January 15, 1811, by a vote of 77 yeas to 36 nays. (Ibid., 413, 466, 482, 493, 513 to 579.) It was during the debate on this bill that Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, in words of eloquence and fire, gave vent to the sentiments which were widely entertained in the Northeast: If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolu