| 单词 | Missouri Compromise |
| 例句 | The teacher asked, “What was the Missouri Compromise?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If true, this story deserves to rank alongside the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 as one of the landmark accommodations in American politics. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The exception occurred in 1819, prompted by the debate then raging over passage of the Missouri Compromise. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On March 2nd, the Senate passed the Kansas-Ne- braska Bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise restriction and divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories: Kansas and Nebraska. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The path to statehood began with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which required the admission of one slave state alongside each new free state admitted to the Union. Looking for a Gold-Rush Town Named Chinese Camp 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The Missouri Compromise left a strip of land 34.5 miles wide and 167 miles long without any form of government or laws until Congress attached it to the new Oklahoma Territory in 1890. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z Ultimately, the Missouri Compromise of the 1850s collapsed, tearing the nation apart and forcing a long overdue reckoning with the enormous evil of slavery. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z Sometimes this involved outright haggling, as in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Dred Scott decision of 1857 struck down the "Missouri Compromise" and ruled former slaves could not be free even in the "free states" of the North. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The law changed the paradigm in place since the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which new territories above the 36°30’ parallel would be free, and those below would be slave. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z This proslavery ruling explicitly made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional; implicitly, it made Douglas’s popular sovereignty unconstitutional. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This case concerned the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, which declared that certain states would be entirely free of slavery. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Going one step further, the court ruled that the Missouri Compromise — an 1820 legislative agreement that sought to limit the expansion of slavery in newly-added states or territories — was unconstitutional. Did the Supreme Court just become "political"? God, no — it's always been that way 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Any law blocking slavery from the federal territories was therefore unconstitutional, including the Wilmot Proviso or even the Missouri Compromise. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z As you read in Chapter 7, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In a concession crucial to many southerners, the proposed bill would also repeal the 36° 30' line from the Missouri Compromise. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In a 7–2 decision, the court declared that the relevant parts of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional, and that Scott remained enslaved as a result. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Should a federal law pass, it would likely stand for many decades, much like the Missouri Compromise settled the slavery question for more than 30 years despite growing abolitionist sentiment. Opinion | Overturning ‘Roe’ would be the easy part for the pro-life movement 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Southern Whigs almost disappeared after 1854, when northern Whigs outraged the South by rejecting the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A law known as the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What do you think he means by writing that the Missouri Compromise line “is a reprieve only, not a final sentence”? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Time called FDR’s 1944 selection for vice president “the mousy little man from Missouri”; others mocked Roosevelt’s pick as “the Second Missouri Compromise.” Opinion | What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It also declared the Missouri Compromise, a deal meant to appease escalating tensions over slavery, unconstitutional, barring Congress from prohibiting slavery in U.S. territories. House Dems to vote on removing Confederate statues, Justice Taney bust from Capitol 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Congress might have used the Missouri Compromise line of 36°30’ to divide California into two states, one slave and one free. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z According to the Missouri Compromise, Missouri could be a slave state and Maine would join the Union as a free state. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Congress finally came to an agreement, called the Missouri Compromise, in 1820. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Missouri Compromise line and the boundary with Mexico impeded its expansion northward and westward. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Passage of the Missouri Compromise contributed to the Era of Good Feelings over which Monroe presided and facilitated his election to a second term.” Poll: Voters oppose Trump’s executive powers on wall 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He also told critics that the Compromise of 1850 had made popular sovereignty the new national policy for slavery in the territories and rendered the Missouri Compromise obsolete. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Of the other four new states, those north of the line set by the Missouri Compromise would be free. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z More importantly, however, it proposed to allow the western expansion of slavery into states below the Missouri Compromise line. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Then the repeal of the Missouri Compromise with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 opened the Northwest to slavery. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had drawn a virtual line across the country separating the free North from the slaveholding South. Opinion | The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps it did, but only if Congress had the constitutional right to adopt the Missouri Compromise, which had banned slavery from the part of the Wisconsin Territory where Scott had lived. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It repealed, or cancelled, the Missouri Compromise line that had been north of Arkansas. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the 1850s, many in the South were also growing resentful of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which established the 36° 30' parallel as the geographical boundary of slavery on the north-south axis. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 1820, to preserve the balance of power between South and North as the country expanded, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free one. When the Supreme Court Lurches Right 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The term "Mason-Dixon Line" would become more widely used when the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 to allow slave-owning Missouri and free Maine to join the union. The men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line - BBC News 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Judging the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise thrust the court into Democratic Party politics by forcing it to choose between two conflicting meanings of popular sovereignty. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Many in the North were sure to be outraged at the bill’s repeal of the Missouri Compromise ban on territorial slavery above the 36°30′ parallel. 25 Moments That Changed America 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Illinois Democratic senator Stephen Douglas believed he had found a solution—the Kansas-Nebraska bill—that would promote party unity and also satisfy his colleagues from the South, who detested the Missouri Compromise line. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “He says, ‘Congress, you do not have the power to enact the Missouri Compromise because African Americans aren’t people under the Constitution,” Roberts continued. Roberts emphasizes high court’s restraint, independence 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Missouri’s history of racial oppression dates back to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was the last slave state admitted to the union, in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. How racial justice advocates took on Mizzou and won 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because slaves were property, and according to the Fifth Amendment, Congress could not deprive persons of their property without due process of law. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A masterpiece of propaganda, the “Appeal” circulated widely, channeling Northern outrage away from a narrow defense of the old Missouri Compromise, and toward a much stronger commitment to oppose any extension of slavery whatsoever. 25 Moments That Changed America 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z This led to the second part of the decision: stamping as unconstitutional the section of the Missouri Compromise that kept slavery out of the territory north of Missouri—including Fort Snelling. What Does Marriage Equality Have to Do with Dred Scott? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Duly Noted: On this date in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, granting the Show-Me State admission to the Union as a slave state. Three-Minute Briefing: Pot, Meet Kettle: 2 GOP Pols Criticizing Hillary Have Similar Email Issues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Obama often lost more than 40 percent of Al Gore’s support among white voters south of the historically significant line of the Missouri Compromise. Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats 2014-04-23T23:31:23Z The bill’s final version created two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and declared the Missouri Compromise “inoperative and void.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Schoolteachers taught their students about the Great Compromise that produced the Constitution and the Missouri Compromise that — for a time — held it together. What Roberts' Health Care Ruling Means for the Country 2012-06-30T01:05:31Z The North favored this, while the South insisted that the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery north of 36� 30', if continued to the Pacific Ocean, would entitle them to California. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z This is the "repeal" of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The following is the said amendment that is harped about as being a restoration of the Missouri Compromise. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z To please the South, he included a provision for popular sovereignty over slavery, which removed the guarantee of free soil provided by the Missouri Compromise. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z That was the fatal act which brought about the agitation of the slavery question; and on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise followed the disturbances in the settlement of Kansas. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The South claimed that the Missouri Compromise, extending to the Pacific coast, guaranteed the right to introduce slavery into California and New Mexico, and threatened secession from the Union. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z "Repeal the Missouri Compromise, repeal all compromises, repeal the Declaration of Independence, repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature." Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The restoration of the Missouri Compromise sounds very smooth and pleasant to the ear, but is it the Missouri Compromise that Mr. Crittenden proposes to restore? The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z Southerners of both parties had long resented the antislavery features of the Missouri Compromise and joined together in favor of Douglas’s bill. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The proposition known as the "Crittenden Proposition" is no more like the Missouri Compromise than is the Government of Turkey like that of the United States. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Missouri Compromise, and rise therefrom of geographical parties. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Following the repeal of the Missouri Compromise came the Kansas struggle, and the organization of a great party to resist the encroachments and aggressions of slavery. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln 2011-10-24T02:00:19.173Z We have heard much about the Missouri Compromise, also about Mr. Crittenden’s amendment, and, for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the two measures, we will give them both in full. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z Mr. Buchanan had been absent as Minister to England during the turmoil over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z "Forever," meaning of, in Missouri Compromise Act, 62, 63 n. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Thus Douglas made his way to the sons of the South and became the father of the Nebraska controversy and of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Franklin Pierce was elected, and Mr. Lincoln remained quietly engaged in his professional pursuits until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln 2011-10-24T02:00:19.173Z Nor was it till nearly a score of years after the passage of the Missouri Compromise bill that the separatist spirit began to identify itself for good with the idea of the maintenance of slavery. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Twelve days later Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, gave notice that he would move an Amendment, repealing the Missouri Compromise, thereby permitting slavery in the new Territory. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z South, the, and the right of Secession, xxx; and the Missouri Compromise, xxx; condition of, in second quarter of 19th century, xxxii, xxxiii; changing view of slavery in, xxxii, and of the slave trade, xxxiv. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Stand with the Abolitionists in restoring the Missouri Compromise, and stand against him when he attempts to repeal the fugitive slave law. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z I heartily concur in all movements which have for their object to repair the mischiefs arising from the violation of good faith in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Missouri Compromise bill, 43; not the beginning of the slavery and anti-slavery divisions in the Union, 48; Benton concerning repeal of, 349. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z It was thought that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would forever settle the trouble, but such was not the case. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z The breaking-up of the Whig and Democratic parties in 1854, growing out of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the opening of the territory to slavery, threw Mr. Lincoln and myself together politically. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z He did not halt at the injustice of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, but went beyond its consideration to the problems of the age, of which that act was only a grave symptom. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z It was so far anti-slavery as to resent the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and oppose the introduction of slavery into new territory. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had expressly abolished slavery in the territory out of which Kansas and Nebraska were carved. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z On the 10th, the Senate passed this bill, with an amendment, proposed by Mr. Douglas, extending the Missouri Compromise line of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes to the Pacific. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Hence he considered the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, but he had opposed the Nebraska Bill because he was not willing to reopen the slavery agitation. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z In the Senate Douglas with triumphant eloquence charged Seward and Sumner and the North with having repudiated the Missouri Compromise through the Wilmot Proviso and the measures of 1850. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z It was silent on the subject of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z This annexed land lay north of the boundary for slave territory established by the Missouri Compromise; but Benton experienced no difficulty in getting his bill through. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z And this opinion is founded mainly, as I understand, on the distinction drawn between the ordinance of 1787 and the Missouri Compromise line. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z When the bill repealing the Missouri Compromise was pending, the opinion had been generally expressed by its supporters that slavery never would or could go into that region. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Some men," he said, "mostly Whigs, who condemn the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, nevertheless hesitate to go for its restoration, lest they be thrown in company with the Abolitionists. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z History of the Compromise Measures of 1850—Cessation of the Agitation in Congress—The Fugitive Slave Law in the North—Repeal of the Missouri Compromise—Narrative of the Difficulties in Kansas—Disunion Convention in Massachusetts. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z Senator Crittenden of Kentucky proposed certain amendments to the Constitution to restore the Missouri Compromise, by which slavery should be confined to specified limits, and Congress prevented from interfering with the labor-system of the South. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z He came out boldly against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska act, although in doing so he exposed himself at home, among his constituents, to the raking fire of his political enemies. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Douglas did not at first propose to repeal the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Fine spun arguments upon the Declaration of Rights—the Federal Constitution—the Missouri Compromise—free soil and philanthropy cannot remove it. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Part of it was about the Missouri Compromise and I didn’t even know what it meant. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl A part of California lay north and a part south of 36° 30', the dividing line between slavery and freedom as defined by the Missouri Compromise, thirty years, before. The Greater Republic A History of the United States It was the defeat of that Missouri Compromise that created the tremendous struggle of 1850. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Dixon, of Kentucky, successor of Henry Clay in the Senate and a Whig in politics, offered an amendment to the bill proposing to repeal the Missouri Compromise outright. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z In the United States, the Missouri Compromise Bill was passed and signed by Monroe, who was reelected to a second term in the Presidency. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 The significance of this little volume lies in the fact that through it the country destined to give birth to "the only free child of the Missouri Compromise" was christened IOWA. History of the Constitutions of Iowa Thus the Missouri Compromise was repealed and the first note of civil war sounded. The Greater Republic A History of the United States It rested for its validity on the act of Congress, the same, in my opinion, as the Missouri Compromise line. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z What were Douglas's reasons for repealing the Missouri Compromise? The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z In 1820 the passage of the Missouri Compromise permitted the westward extension of slavery and as far north as 36° 30′. The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 It was with such an ally that the slave power undertook the task of repealing the Missouri Compromise. Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 The Missouri Compromise forbade slavery forever in those sections, for both of them lie to the north parallel of 36° 30'. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The very men who now arraign me for a departure from the Missouri Compromise are the men who successfully violated it, repudiated it, and caused it to be superseded by the compromise measures of 1850. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z He was startled by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Ever since the Missouri Compromise in 1820 Slavery has been really the master, obviously so since the annexation of Texas in 1845. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Schoolboys knew all about the Missouri Compromise, the fugitive slave law, and States rights. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches He was the most powerful advocate of the recognition of the Spanish-American States in revolt, and but for Clay the Missouri Compromise would not have been prepared and adopted. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Then, sir, as I before remarked, the defeat of the Missouri Compromise in 1848 having created the necessity for the establishment of a new one in 1850, let us see what that Compromise was. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z The Missouri Compromise was generally considered a victory for the South, but one great Southerner considered it the death-knell of the Union. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z At first it seemed doubtful which was master in the federal councils; but in 1820, in a great battle—the Missouri Compromise—Slavery triumphed, and has ever since been master. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence His speech against the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise which had been effected by his inveterate antagonist, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, was his first classic achievement in argumentative oratory. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Still others proposed to divide the new territory by the Missouri Compromise line. The Greater Republic A History of the United States By this they secured the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, upon which the Democrats were agreed, by confining the act to the general purpose to be accomplished. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Who repealed the Missouri Compromise, in order to force slavery upon all the Territories of the United States? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy By the repeal of the Missouri Compromise this question had been left for settlement to the people of the Territory. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 Thus was accomplished by Ballard, Paisley—and Jones—the Second Missouri Compromise, at Boisé City, Idaho, 1867—an eccentric moment in the eccentric years of our development westward, and historic also. Red Men and White The Missouri Compromise was to us of the East a flag of truce. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 In the great debate over the compromise measures in 1850, no one ever called in question the Missouri Compromise. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Finally Henry Clay succeeded in getting Congress to pass the Missouri Compromise. History Plays for the Grammar Grades I heartily concur in all movements which have for their object 'to repair the mischiefs arising from the violation of good faith in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.' Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors California, Utah, New Mexico and Texas all embraced territory on both sides of the Missouri Compromise line. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 The war with Mexico, the annexation of Texas, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, were only successive sops thrown to the insatiable monster. John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. This continued to be the condition of the country in the Missouri territory up to 1820, when the celebrated act which is now called the Missouri Compromise act was passed. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z January 16, Archibald Dixon, a senator from Kentucky, offered an amendment expressly repealing the eighth section of the Missouri Compromise law. Stephen Arnold Douglas The defect in the first amendment can hardly be considered by Southern men as remedied by another which recognized the binding force of the Missouri Compromise. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors They were able as they had been before when Mr. Douglas proposed, and the South voted for it, to vote down the project of extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 But it would be unwise to cross-examine any Englishman, who may be consuming that luxury at the moment, about the Missouri Compromise or the controversies with Andrew Jackson. What I Saw in America When the Missouri Compromise roused the North from its slumbers, he sided almost instinctively with the friends of freedom, and made several public speeches during the excitement against any compromise with slavery. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Without a sign of any popular demand, without preliminary agitation or debate, Douglas, of Illinois, had set himself to repeal the Missouri Compromise. Stephen Arnold Douglas On January 23, Douglas introduced his second bill, repealing the provisions of the Missouri Compromise for the proposed two Territories. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) He especially distinguished himself by his earnest, yet unavailing, resistance to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He contended that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was not a compromise in any sense of the term, but an unconstitutional usurpation of power. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Had we been faithful to the principles of the Missouri Compromise in 1848, this question would not have arisen. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z True, he had once thought the Missouri Compromise a sacred compact; but there were signs that he had abandoned that opinion. Stephen Arnold Douglas By the terms of an amendment offered for the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, Slavery controversy revived slavery was to be excluded from all future territory in the West. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) The repeal of the Missouri Compromise had outraged the North and indicated that a new party must be formed to resist the extension of slavery. Historical Essays They called the Missouri Compromise a compact, yet showed their willingness to violate it. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage I undertake to say it was the very men who now insist that the Missouri Compromise was a solemn compact, and should never be violated or departed from. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Suddenly, with the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, Douglas himself had opened a path for him. Stephen Arnold Douglas Wherever the difference of opinion on the Missouri Compromise in 1854 dissolved party ties in the North, multitudes flocked to the new party. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) This was at the time he referred to when he wrote: "I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise roused me again." The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Mr. Fillmore declared that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was "the Pandora Box of Evil." Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage It was the defeat of that Missouri Compromise that reopened the slavery agitation with all its fury. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z In 1856, on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, he left the Democratic party, and became the Republican candidate for Congress, but was defeated. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States It admitted Missouri as a slave State, and prohibited slavery north of The Missouri Compromise parallel 36° 30', the southern line of Missouri. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) It was an element in the Missouri Compromise that it should apply to future as well as to existing territory. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 It had declined to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage It was the defeat of that Missouri Compromise that created the necessity for making a new compromise in 1850. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Even the North was divided over the great question of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Thus began the agitation which led to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) One was, the authority of Scott to sue; the other was, upon the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He declared that the bill violated the principles of the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in all that territory ceded by France and lying north of 36° 30'. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Every man who is now assailing the principle of the bill under consideration, so far as I am advised, was opposed to the Missouri Compromise in 1848. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Such was the great Missouri Compromise which kept the peace between the sections for a generation, and which gradually acquired an almost religious sanction in the minds of Americans devoted to the Union. A History of the United States The occasion for this was the first serious clash of the Northern and Southern factions of the United States over what was known as the Missouri Compromise. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Mr. Clay left such language out of the Missouri Compromise, as he avowed, on the ground that slavery could not legally go into territory free when it was acquired, without the aid of affirmative legislation. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Mr. Toombs ridiculed the assertion of Millard Fillmore that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was a violation of a sacred compact. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage There was inserted in that a provision, suggested in the first instance and brought before the House of Representatives by myself, extending the Missouri Compromise line indefinitely westward through the territory of Texas. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z This was virtually the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, save that California, already accepted as a Free State, was not affected. A History of the United States Radicals of the one part would consent to nothing short of extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific; those of the other stood solidly for the unmodified proviso. History of the United States, Volume 3 The proviso to the prohibition in the Missouri Compromise in 1820 is a striking confirmation of this. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The humble farmer knew all about the Missouri Compromise and the Nebraska bill. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage The "Missouri Compromise" of 1820 was in reality a truce between antagonistic revenue systems, each seeking to gain the balance of power. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War We have already seen him as the triumphant author of the Missouri Compromise. A History of the United States This rich country west and northwest of Missouri, consecrated to freedom by the Missouri Compromise, had been slowly filling with civilized men. History of the United States, Volume 3 Those who repealed the Missouri Compromise, believed that Kansas would be a slave State. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Among the other vital conditions which helped to keep the country's interest and attention divided at this critical time was the Missouri Compromise repeal, May 30, 1855. Fifty Years of Public Service It was not without reason that the proposal of the Missouri Compromise came from Illinois, and it was a natural enthusiasm with which these States followed Henry Clay in the war policy of 1812. The Frontier in American History He alone seems to have understood fully how much the South had sacrificed by the Missouri Compromise. A History of the United States But the hint was taken, and on January 16th notice given of intention to move an out-and-out abrogation of the Missouri Compromise. History of the United States, Volume 3 The Missouri Compromise was intended to settle the rights of the respective sections in the territories. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He arraigned the administration of Mr. Buchanan and denounced the repeal of the Missouri Compromise under the lead of Senator Douglas. Fifty Years of Public Service But the most significant early manifestation of the rival currents of migration with respect to slavery is seen in the contest which culminated in the Missouri Compromise. The Frontier in American History The sectional debate had by this time become far more heated and dangerous than had been the debates which the Missouri Compromise had settled thirty years before. A History of the United States It denounced the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. History of the United States, Volume 3 Had not that taken place, the Missouri Compromise would not have been repealed. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The report did not, however, as presented, propose to repeal the Missouri Compromise line that had stood thirty-four years with the approval of the first statesmen of all parties in the Union. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 But events in Congress, especially the act repealing the Missouri Compromise, practically dissolved existing parties, and left Mr. Chase in the vantage ground of having resisted this measure with firmness. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The Compromise of 1850, though welcomed on all sides as a final settlement, failed as completely as the Missouri Compromise had succeeded. A History of the United States Thus stood matters when the Missouri Compromise was mooted in the national Legislature. History of the United States, Volume 3 Now, our brethren of the North propose to give us the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Accordingly, Senator Dixon of Kentucky, on January 16th, offered an amendment to the Nebraska Bill providing for the absolute repeal of the Missouri Compromise line. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused the combative feeling of the north until it became general among all parties and sects. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. It was therefore free soil by virtue of the Missouri Compromise. A History of the United States Dred Scott was a slave of an army officer, who had taken him from Missouri first into Illinois, a free State, then into Wisconsin, covered by the Missouri Compromise, then back into Missouri. History of the United States, Volume 3 The Missouri Compromise once settled this Territorial question in a manner satisfactory to the South. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Davis of Mississippi insisted upon the extension of the Missouri Compromise line—36° 30´—to the Pacific Ocean. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Twenty-one Members, all opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, but differing in opinion upon other questions, were elected to Congress. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Bill introduced to repeal the "Missouri Compromise."—Speech by Stephen A. Douglass.—Mr. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Not alone Calhoun but nearly every other southerner of great influence, at least from the day of the Missouri Compromise, had been inculcating the supreme authority of the State as compared with the Union. History of the United States, Volume 3 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise is referred to, hinted at, as the principal cause. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The Missouri Compromise line had stood unassailed for above a third of a century. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 They were supported by a general feeling of resentment in the north, caused by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Bill introduced to repeal the "Missouri Compromise."—Speech by Stephen A. Douglass.—Mr. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific would have satisfied them. Expansion and Conflict The history of the Missouri Compromise is so simple that we all understand it. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 At the beginning of the struggle against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854, Abraham Lincoln was scarcely known outside of his own State. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings He took a decided stand against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. North-west Territory.—Anti- slavery Restriction of the Missouri Compromise.—Movement to repeal it by Mr. Clay's Successor in the Senate.—Mr. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The Missouri Compromise had never been passed upon by the court. Expansion and Conflict The gentleman from Iowa says this is the Missouri Compromise; but it lacks much of it. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Repeal the Missouri Compromise—repeal all compromise—and repeal the Declaration of Independence—repeal all past history—still you cannot repeal human nature. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was therefore approved by the highest judicial tribunal. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In this same year the Missouri Compromise was passed in the national legislature. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 If there is any proposition in which the North can concur—any that will restore harmony between the North and the South—it is the restoration of the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 When Missouri applied for admission into the Union, the question of slavery west of the Mississippi was discussed and finally settled by what was afterward called "The Missouri Compromise of 1820." Ten American Girls From History Mr. Douglas, the great leader for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, took immediate ground against the pro-slavery plan, and protested to the President against it. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The most striking result in the political field, produced by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, was the utter destruction of the Whig party. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The proposition to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and to admit Kansas and Nebraska as States, with or without slavery, as their citizens might respectively elect, gave rise to exciting debates. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Mr. CROWNINSHIELD:—I understand that the proposition of the gentleman from Iowa is to restore the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 As we know, when Missouri applied for admission into the Union, the slavery question was discussed and finally settled by the so-called "Missouri Compromise" in 1820. Ten American Girls From History The conflict was now between freedom and slavery, an issue carefully avoided by the two great parties prior to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. He had gained great popularity in the South by his course in repealing the Missouri Compromise, but he had been visited with signal condemnation in the North. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Indeed, up to the time of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise the whole array of anti-slavery writers and speakers had not accomplished the results which the reviewer attributes to the "Biglow Papers." Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 The South, then, established and destroyed the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Originally a Democrat of the Van Buren type, he had helped to organize the Republican party after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The first controversy about slavery was happily settled by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. By the Missouri Compromise every square mile of this domain had been honorably devoted to freedom. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 It was the theory of the Missouri Compromise Measure of 1820 and it was the theory of the compromise measures of 1850, that the Constitution neither authorized slavery anywhere nor prohibited it anywhere. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 Restore the Missouri Compromise and this territory will be devoted to southern institutions. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Nebraska had been organized as a Territory in the original Douglas bill repealing the Missouri Compromise, in 1854; and Colorado was made a Territory the week preceding Mr. Lincoln's first inauguration. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 This, too, was postponed by the compromise of 1850, but unhappily, within four years, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise re-opened the controversy that led to the struggle in Kansas. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The bill had fully recognized the binding force of the Missouri Compromise, and if it had passed, there could have been no pretense for the introduction of slavery in the territory of Nebraska. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Go back to the days of the Missouri Compromise. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform If the Missouri Compromise had not been repealed we should not have found ourselves in our present condition. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 All the prominent Republicans of Ohio were on the stump and the canvass was extraordinarily heated, even for a State which has had an animated contest every year since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 With some others, I advocated the division of the newly acquired territory by an extension to the Pacific Ocean of the Missouri Compromise line of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government The repeal of the Missouri Compromise had shown them for the first time that they could absolutely consolidate the Southern vote in Congress in defense of slavery, regardless of differences on all other issues. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The conclusion of all this is that we must restore the Missouri Compromise. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform After the repeal of the Missouri Compromise came the Kansas agitation. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 When the South demanded the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise Mr. King followed his personal convictions, broke from his Democratic associations and aided in the organization of the Republican party. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 This provision, as an offset to the admission of the new State without restriction, constituted the celebrated Missouri Compromise. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Both her senators voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and stood by the extremists of the South as steadily as if California bordered on the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The rude awakening came two years later, when the country was aroused, as it had rarely been before, by impassioned debate in and out of Congress, over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The fifth was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1850, and the attempts to subjugate and enslave Kansas. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He was a warm supporter of Douglas and voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Hence the deduction that the prohibitory clause of what is known as the Missouri Compromise was justified by the precedent of the Ordinance of 1787. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government If the Missouri Compromise had not been repealed, a free State was assured. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 He was distinguished as a judge, and later as an able and active participant in exciting debates in the Senate, extending from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the impeachment of President Johnson. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Your troubles have been caused by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The slavery question was still very prominent, and the people were deeply stirred by the attempt to repeal the Missouri Compromise. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The "Missouri Compromise" surrendered to the North all the newly acquired region not included in the State of Missouri, and north of the parallel of thirty-six degrees and a half. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Douglas had, in large degree, redeemed himself in the North from the obloquy to which he had been subjected since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Among its provisions was one repealing the Missouri Compromise or restriction of 1820. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Now, you gentlemen of the South propose to restore the Missouri Compromise line. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Like assurances preceded the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 In 1854 he seemed to be losing interest in politics when the news of the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise aroused him. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 But he instinctively foresaw that his political future would be endangered by advocating the repeal of the Missouri Compromise on the basis and for the reason announced by Mr. Dixon. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The prairie was interesting but not when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was on the carpet. The Emigrant Trail The construction placed upon the Missouri Compromise was, that the prohibition of slavery north of the line which it established, implied the right of holding slaves south of the line. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 The slave holders had organized a formidable body of men to drive out the Free State settlers from the Territories, which had just been opened after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The Peace of Augsburg, like the Missouri Compromise, only postponed civil war and the radical solution of a pressing problem. The Age of the Reformation That feature was simply the provision, since so widely known as the Missouri Compromise, which forever prohibited slavery north of 36° 30´ in all the territory acquired from France by the Louisiana purchase. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 But Calhoun was one of the men who did not think the Missouri Compromise was a good thing for the country. Stories of Later American History But you must not expect now, that the North will do any thing better for you than to extend the provisions of the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific Ocean. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Twelve days later a Kentucky senator by the name of Dixon introduced an amendment to the Nebraska Act, providing for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict He has himself recorded that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise meant for him the sudden revival in a far stronger form of his interest in politics, and, we may add, of his political ambition. Abraham Lincoln Although the Missouri Compromise was thus nominally perfected, and the agitation apparently ended, the most exciting, and in some respects the most dangerous, phase of the question was yet to be reached. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Not long after the Missouri Compromise was agreed upon, Northern manufacturers were urging Congress to pass a high-tariff law. Stories of Later American History I am not so much concerned with the problem of getting a pupil to master a history lesson quickly and effectively,—not how he may best assimilate the facts concerning the Missouri Compromise, for example. Craftsmanship in Teaching They accepted in 1787 the Ordinance which excluded slavery from the Northwest territory forever and also the Missouri Compromise, which shut it out of a vast section of the Louisiana territory. History of the United States The repeal of the Missouri Compromise threw it into a ferment, which the continuing disorders in Kansas were in themselves sufficient to keep up. Abraham Lincoln North of 36° 30´ the Missouri Compromise had dedicated the entire country to freedom. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 "In 1854," he writes, "his profession had almost superseded the thought of politics in his mind, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused him as he had never been before." A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Will you venture to say that Texas could have been annexed, the Fugitive-Slave Law passed, the Missouri Compromise Bill repealed, without the consent and active assistance of Northern Democrats? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Emboldened by their own strength and the weakness of their opponents, they now dared to repeal the Missouri Compromise. History of the United States The greatest evil in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was the laxity of public tone which had made it possible. Abraham Lincoln Thirty years after these events Mr. Clay called attention to the fact that he had received undeserved credit for the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which he had supported but not originated. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 It was in January, 1854, that the accidents of a Senate debate threw into Congress and upon the country the firebrand of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History It was at the last session of the fifteenth Congress, in the winter of 1820-21, when the famous Compromise measure, known as the Missouri Compromise, was effected. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Not content with this, the law went on to declare the Missouri Compromise null and void as being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories. History of the United States Before now he had proposed that the line of the Missouri Compromise be extended to the Pacific Ocean. Children of the Market Place Mr. Dixon was the first to strike an open blow against the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 After a searching history of the Missouri Compromise, he attacks the demoralizing effects and portentous consequences of its repeal. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History As first printed in the Washington Sentinel, January 7th, the bill contained no reference to the Missouri Compromise and no direct suggestion that the territorial legislature would decide the question of slavery. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics If Douglas fancied that the North would receive the overthrow of the Missouri Compromise in the same temper that it greeted Clay's settlement, he was rapidly disillusioned. History of the United States With the impetuosity of his thirty-two years he slipped into a recognition of the Missouri Compromise, and was willing that slavery should be prohibited north of this line. Children of the Market Place Mr. Marcy had personally disapproved the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, but he made no opposition, and the people held him equally if not doubly guilty. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 That this conservative opinion looked upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as an act of aggression in the interest of slavery is indicated by Everett's speech, and this gives the speech its historic significance. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) It has commonly been assumed that Douglas desired the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in order to open Nebraska to slavery. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The Missouri Compromise.—Respecting one other important measure of this period, the Republicans also took a broad view of their obligations under the Constitution; namely, the Missouri Compromise. History of the United States Douglas in the discussion, with his eye for the concrete, pointed out that the ordinance of 1787, and the Missouri Compromise as well, were practically dead letters. Children of the Market Place They indorsed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and recognized the "right of the people of all the territories to form a constitution with or without domestic slavery." Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 By that act the Missouri Compromise was repealed and the final conflict entered upon with the slave power. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) The regrettable aspect of Douglas's course is his attempt to nullify the Missouri Compromise by subtle indirection. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics While that bill was pending in Congress, many Northern Whigs and Democrats had come to the conclusion that a new party dedicated to freedom in the territories must follow the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. History of the United States Lincoln twitted Douglas about being on both sides of the matter of extending the Missouri Compromise. Children of the Market Place Against the madness of repealing the Missouri Compromise he entered a protest and a warning. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In 1854 the Missouri Compromise had been repealed, trouble in Kansas had reached its height, the Know Nothing party was at its zenith, the Whigs were demoralized and the Free Soilers were gaining the ascendency. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years He disliked the amendment, not so much because it wiped out the Missouri Compromise as because it seemed "affirmatively to legislate slavery into the Territory." Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Scott was a slave who had been taken by his master into the upper Louisiana territory, where freedom had been established by the Missouri Compromise, and then carried back into his old state of Missouri. History of the United States The Missouri Compromise lifted a barrier to the expansion of the Calhoun idea of free government, having African slavery for its corner-stone. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy After the repeal of the Missouri Compromise he separated himself from his old associates, and proved to be a powerful factor in the formation of the Republican party. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 As she would be a free labor State, the Southerners would not vote for her admission unless Missouri could have slaves; hence the Missouri Compromise Bill, of which we have all heard. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War Next day Senator Dixon expressed his satisfaction with the amendment, which he interpreted as virtually repealing the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics It held that Scott had not been free anywhere and that, besides, the Missouri Compromise violated the Constitution and was null and void. History of the United States Some men, mostly Whigs, who condemn the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, nevertheless hesitate to go for its restoration, lest they be thrown in company with the Abolitionists. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise had not brought profit or honor to those who planned it. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The act which abrogated the Missouri Compromise broke the much-enduring back of Northern patience at the same time. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist The Appeal of the Independent Democrats had bitterly arraigned the declaratory part of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, where the Missouri Compromise was said to have been superseded and therefore inoperative. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Thurlow Weed, an Albany journalist and politician who had done much to carry New York for Lincoln, proposed a plan for extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. History of the United States I close this part of the discussion on my part by asking him the question again, Why, when we had peace under the Missouri Compromise, could you not have let it alone? Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Its members had not been so ready to repeal the Missouri Compromise as the Democrats, and they were unrelenting in their hostility to Douglas, and severe in their exposure of his dogma of popular sovereignty. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Such was Massachusetts's answer to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, and a triumphant slave-power. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Even staunch Democrats like Cass had taken exception to this phraseology, preferring to declare the Missouri Compromise null and void in unequivocal terms. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics If the Southerners had left things as they were under the Missouri Compromise, they never would have stirred up the popular outbreak that destroyed slavery. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Two years later Lincoln engaged in his first real debate with Douglas on the burning question of the day, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) The repeal of the Missouri Compromise aided the canvass of Pollock, but that alone would not have loosened the strong moorings of the Pennsylvania Democracy. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 For, if the Missouri Compromise were pronounced by that Court unconstitutional and, therefore, ab initio, null and void, no wrong was done the North through its formal repeal by Congress. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist If the Missouri Compromise were repealed, would not the original laws of Louisiana, which legalized slavery, be revived? Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics He asked one evening, "What was the Missouri Compromise?" Westways "I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line?" Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) Ever since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise the majorities against the Democrats in that State had varied from ten to nineteen thousand. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The dread of disunion led to mutual concessions, to the Missouri Compromise. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist The outburst of wrath at the North which accompanied the repeal of the Missouri Compromise did not augur well for the future repose of the country. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics "But," he urged, "it declares the Missouri Compromise not warranted by the Constitution!" Westways In its original form the bill contained no reference to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, but in the form in which it was passed it declared the Missouri Compromise to be null and void. Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) The Missouri Compromise, passed with the consent and support of the South, was repealed by Southern dictation the moment its operation was found to be hostile to the spread of slavery. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 It was during the term following this election that the Kansas-Nebraska issue was precipitated upon the country by Senator Douglas, in the introduction of his bill for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him The anti-Nebraska forces accepted the gage of battle by nominating Bissell, a conspicuous figure among those Democrats who could not sanction the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The repeal of the Missouri Compromise had years before disturbed his party allegiance, and now no longer had he been able to see the grave question of slavery as Ann his wife saw it. Westways He then takes up the Missouri Compromise with some detail, giving almost verbatim the proceedings of Congress relative thereto. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 He had been a member of the House for eight years, having been chosen directly after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 I say it was conceived in violence, because the destruction of the Missouri Compromise under the Constitution was nothing less than violence. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him They could not bring themselves to believe other than ill of the man who had advocated the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Conjointly, they enacted those measures that became known as the compromises of 1850, the principal ones being the Fugitive Slave Law and the act repealing the Missouri Compromise. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights The movement toward sectionalism, which developed after the Missouri Compromise, had left them cold. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution —The first section restored the line of the Missouri Compromise as it was before the repeal in 1854. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 And now, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise shattered all parties into fragments, he came forward to build up the Free Soil party and threw into the conflict all his strength and vigor. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics There might have been and probably would have been considerable discussion, ending in a protest, more or less "ringing," when slavery was permitted to overstep the line marked out by the Missouri Compromise. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights But it was not solely self-interest, it was conscience that backed the Missouri Compromise, nowhere else, naturally, so strongly as in New England. Emerson and Other Essays Lyman Trumbull had entered the Senate six years before, when Illinois revolted against the course of Douglas in destroying the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The absorbing political topic in 1855 was the contest in Kansas, which proved the battle-ground for the struggle over the introduction of slavery into the territories north of the line established by the "Missouri Compromise." The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him The crucial point was the first amendment, which would restore the Missouri Compromise line "in all the territory of the United States now held, or hereafter acquired." Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Now the adoption of the Missouri Compromise was the hardest blow ever inflicted on the cause of free soil in America. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights The conscience of the North was pledged to the Missouri Compromise, and that Compromise neither slumbered nor slept. Emerson and Other Essays Among the Democrats the most conspicuous was William A. Richardson, who had been a devoted adherent of Douglas, and had co-operated with in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him If these States should be formed south of the Missouri Compromise line, they were to be admitted with or without slavery, as the people of each should determine. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The next occasion after the Missouri Compromise, on which slavery made its influence strongly felt at Washington, was when Mr. Adams's scheme of the Panama mission aroused such bitter and unexpected resistance in Congress. Daniel Webster It denied the legal existence of the African race as persons in American society and in constitutional law, and also denied the supremacy of Congress over the territories and the constitutionality of the "Missouri Compromise." Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 The Missouri Compromise resulted in the prohibition of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase, north of 36° and 30' north latitude. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History But he offered little else than an extension westward of the Missouri Compromise line; and he never 203 really had the slightest chance of effecting that consummation, which in fact could not be effected. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I In view of later developments, this extension of the Missouri Compromise line is a point of great significance in the career of Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics A bill came up from the House with no provision in regard to slavery, and Mr. Douglas carried an amendment to it, declaring the Missouri Compromise to be in full force in Oregon. Daniel Webster The supreme effort of Mr. Clay's Congressional life was in connection with the Missouri Compromise of 1821. Famous Americans of Recent Times James Otis in his prime was no further distant from the tyranny of Andros than middle-aged men of to-day are distant from the Missouri Compromise. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty He told Southerners that by his happy theory of "popular sovereignty" he had educated the public mind, and accomplished the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I In the spirit of compromise he was still willing to approve an extension of the Missouri Compromise line through our new possessions. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics When Northern members of Congress voted, in 1820, for the Missouri Compromise, against the known will of their constituents, they were called "Dough Faces." The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style To the Missouri Compromise much time and careful explanation should be given. A Short History of the United States They repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had hitherto stood, like the Chinese wall, between our Northwestern Territories and the irruptions of slaveholding barbarians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Jefferson Davis 090 spoke for the extension westward of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, with a proviso positively establishing slavery south of that line. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I The futility of a compromise based on an extension of the Missouri Compromise line was now apparent. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The principle of the non-interference of Congress with the Territories once secured, there yet stood in the way of its universal application the time-honored agreement called the Missouri Compromise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 They denied that the Missouri Compromise had been repealed. A Short History of the United States Others were led to suppose that Congress had ended the Missouri Compromise discussion by making them all free, and that the law would protect their liberty, if they could only secure it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator In the course of debate it was explained, and not contradicted, that slavery was not mentioned in the bills because the Missouri Compromise controlled that matter. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Douglas was equally convinced that the Missouri Compromise had had no practical effect upon slavery. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The Missouri Compromise has been repealed," said Thatcher, his eyes shining, "and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill has thrown the fertile state of Kansas into the ring to be fought for by free-state men and pro-slavery men. Vandemark's Folly They also declared that the Missouri Compromise was unlawful. A Short History of the United States Dred Scott, a negro slave in Missouri, had been carried into the Territory of Minnesota, where, by the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery did not exist. Government and Administration of the United States A plausible suggestion was made to extend the sacred line of the Missouri Compromise westward to the Pacific Ocean; and very little of the new country lay north of that line. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Presumably, for some reason, Atchison no longer believed the Missouri Compromise "irremediable." Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics A little later we shall endeavor to treat this interesting subject for the period between the Missouri Compromise and the Civil War. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Clay, Henry, portrait; in Congress; and the Missouri Compromise; defeated for the Presidency; and the Compromise of 1850. A Short History of the United States Its purpose was to throw open for settlement and for later organisation as Slave States the whole territory of the North-west from which, under the Missouri Compromise, slavery had been excluded. Abraham Lincoln He had opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Lecompton outrage. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 On both sides, there was a disposition to agree on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, though grave misgivings were felt. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, repealing the Missouri Compromise and providing for "squatter sovereignty" in the territories in question, outraged the North and led immediately to the forming of the Republican party. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Slavery; in Virginia; compromises; Missouri Compromise; petitions in Congress; Compromise of 1850; abolished. A Short History of the United States The South was well pleased with the purpose and with the result of the Dred Scott decision and with the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln When in 1856 the Cincinnati Convention indorsed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he had opposed, Mr. Hamlin formally withdrew from the Democratic party. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 He showed how far he had traveled since the Fourth of January in no way more strikingly, than when he called in question the substantive character of the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics He was discovered by a United States marshal who presented a writ for his arrest just at the time of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in May, 1854. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia That's your Missouri Compromise; but has the North ever considered it so sacred? The Purchase Price The repeal of the Missouri Compromise throws open not only a great new territory to the curse of slavery; it throws open the whole slavery question for the embroiling of the present generation of Americans. Abraham Lincoln This new opportunity arose in the slavery agitation, beginning with the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854, and ending with the election of Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Malcontents from both parties, but chiefly anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Abolitionists, were drawing together in common hostility to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics This was the period of the Missouri Compromise. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia The Supreme Court of the United States will declare the whole Missouri Compromise unconstitutional at no late date. The Purchase Price They wanted the Union restored as it had been, Missouri Compromise and all. Abraham Lincoln The Missouri Compromise had been repealed to make such an extension possible. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Sooner or later, the South must have demanded the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, or have sought large concessions elsewhere. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics This parallel was thereafter known as the "Missouri Compromise Line." A School History of the United States At last, through the influence of Henry Clay, the dispute was settled by what has since been known as the Missouri Compromise. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans While the fronts are very fine, showy, and youthful as the Lecompton Constitution, the rears are coarse, common, and old as the Missouri Compromise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 The court will not decide the question of the Missouri Compromise line—a majority of the judges being of opinion that it is not necessary to do so. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Southern politicians had at the time control of the government; and they got rid of both difficulties by repealing the Missouri Compromise in the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Every foot of it was north of 36° 30', and according to the Missouri Compromise was free soil. A School History of the United States The Missouri Compromise provided that Missouri should be a slave state; this was to satisfy the South. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans He was born with the Missouri Compromise and lay a-dying amid the echoes of Manila and El Caney: stirring times for living, times dark to look back upon, darker to look forward to. The Souls of Black Folk To make a slave-State of Kansas, the Missouri Compromise had been repealed, and a bogus legislature elected and supported by the successive Missouri invasions and the guerrilla war of 1856. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Then comes the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Delegates from seven states left the convention because it would not stand by the Missouri Compromise, and taking the name North Americans nominated N. P. Banks. A School History of the United States This bill provided that the Missouri Compromise should be repealed, and that the question of slavery in these territories should be decided by the people living in them. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans Of the Missouri Compromise he says, "It was an arrangement by which the South made concessions, and gained nothing"! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 In the South, they had been men whose moderate anti-slavery feelings were outraged by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Lecompton trick. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Respectable statesmanship, having made the Missouri Compromise, would have no more of it. The Nation in a Nutshell The Missouri Compromise.%—Each side was so determined, and it was so clear that neither would yield, that a compromise was suggested. A School History of the United States But he was beaten in his own party, on account of the action which he had taken in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was originally harmless enough, but the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which on Mr. Davis' insistence was made a part of it, let slip the dogs of war. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography That the Constitution of the United States recognizes slaves as property, and pledges the Federal Government to protect it; and that the Missouri Compromise act and like prohibitory laws are unconstitutional. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was originaly harmless enough, but the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which on Mr. Davis' insistence was made a part of it, let slip the dogs of war. Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography When the Missouri Compromise was made in 1820, many people believed that the troublesome matter of slavery was settled. A School History of the United States Others were led to suppose that Congress had ended the Missouri Compromise discussion by making them all free, and that the law would protect their liberty if they could only secure it. Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts In 1854, the Missouri Compromise Bill of 1820, made to shut out the free States from the invasion of slavery, was repealed. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form This was indeed no longer the formidable legislative power which repealed the Missouri Compromise, but it seemed perhaps a sufficient force to carry out the President's recommendation. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 In 1820 you wanted a geographical limit assigned to your peculiar institution and we passed the law known as the Missouri Compromise. The American Union Speaker Did Congress have power to enact the Missouri Compromise? A School History of the United States We remember the bitter Slavery agitation in Congress over the admission of the State of Missouri, and how it eventuated in the Missouri Compromise. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 In 1854, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, at the instance of the South, reopened the agitation. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2 The country had recovered from the shock of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and rewarded them with Buchanan. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 The proposition known as the Crittenden Compromise is no more like the Missouri Compromise than is the government of Turkey like that of the United States. The American Union Speaker That the piece of legislation known as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was null and void. A School History of the United States The bitterness of the struggle over the admission of Missouri as a Slave State in 1820, under the Missouri Compromise, was to be revived by the Conspirators, at the earliest possible moment. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 Public sentiment in the North was greatly stirred by this direct attempt to repeal the Missouri Compromise. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1 It has been pro and con in regard to a Navy, a National Bank, Internal Improvements, Protection, Hard Money, and Missouri Compromise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 Now, sir, I have no objection to the restoration of the Missouri Compromise as it stood in 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Bill repealed it. The American Union Speaker At the South the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was universally welcomed, and the Southern leaders felt encouragement and exultation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders Among the compromises, the oldest and most respected, dating back to 1820, was that which bore the name of the Missouri Compromise. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. He says that if he is elected to the Senate he will introduce and pass a law just like the Missouri Compromise, prohibiting Slavery again in all the Territories. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1 Mr. Davis has, however, omitted from his list the Dred Scott Case, probably for the technical reason that, in 1857, when the cause was decided, the Missouri Compromise had been repealed. The Theory of Social Revolutions Restore the old Missouri Compromise as it stood; let us go back to the settlement made in 1850, and there let us stand. The American Union Speaker And slavery, when the Missouri Compromise was started, was looked upon as a measure rather than as a principle, concerning which few statesmen had thought deeply. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders A bill proposed by Mr. Douglas annuls the Missouri Compromise, and, based on the principle of local sovereignties, withdraws from Congress the right to interfere in the question of slavery. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. Had the Missouri Compromise been kept inviolate to the present day, slavery might still have existed below thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established The slavery question, once supposed to have been settled by the Missouri Compromise, had proved itself incapable of such settlement. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 In 1857 the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and opened all territories to slavery. A Brief History of the United States The opening of the slavery discussions resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the irritations of that great topic were allayed for the time. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders But when I came to look into that question, I found that there was no prospect, no hope, of a repeal of the Missouri Compromise excluding slavery from that territory…. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 Maine was admitted, March 15th, 1820, and, after a two years' wild debate, it was thought the whole question of slavery was settled by the Missouri Compromise, February 27, 1821. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established This organization, which gave itself the name "Republican party," came into existence in 1854, the same year in which Senator Douglas's bill abrogated the Missouri Compromise. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Missouri Compromise was supposed to have settled the issue of slavery. A Brief History of the United States He was among those who at first supposed that the Missouri Compromise of 1821 was a final settlement, and was hostile to the further agitation of the slavery question. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders The next great error was the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 It came into the Union as a slave state, but by what is known as the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Life of Abraham Lincoln They repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had hitherto stood like the Chinese wall, between our Northwestern Territories and the irruptions of slaveholding barbarians. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe But an attempt was made to amend the bill and declare that the Missouri Compromise should not apply to Nebraska, whereupon such bitter opposition arose that Douglas recalled his bill and brought in another. A Brief History of the United States President Polk had recommended the extension of the old Missouri Compromise line of 36° 30' westward to the Pacific, leaving the territory south of that open to slavery. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders Thus the matter rested till the 16th of January, when Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, apparently acting for himself alone, offered an amendment in effect repealing the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The chief event in the life of Douglas is the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Why, in the Missouri Compromise, was 36 degrees 30 minutes taken as the boundary between the slave and the free States? A Brief History of the United States In the decade following the enactment of the Missouri Compromise there was prodigious material growth in every section of the American Union. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time But as soon as the Missouri Compromise was repealed he put forth his noblest energies in behalf of justice, of right, and of humanity. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders The repeal of the Missouri Compromise made the slavery question paramount in every State of the Union. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 And the history of the Missouri Compromise cannot be written without giving large place to the activity of Douglas. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Missouri Compromise passed, March 3, Maine admitted to the Union, March 15, 1821. A Brief History of the United States Maxime Valois knows that the line of the Missouri Compromise will here give a splendid new southern star to the flag south of 36 deg 30 min. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance I have already spoken of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which Mr. Clay has the chief credit of effecting, but the time now came for him to meet the question on other grounds. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders In the Southern States the great majority of people welcomed, supported, and defended the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, it being consonant with their pro-slavery feelings, and apparently favorable to their pro-slavery interests. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise caused great excitement throughout the land. The Life of Abraham Lincoln The Missouri Compromise.—When the admission of Missouri as a State was proposed, a violent discussion arose as to whether it should be free or slave. A Brief History of the United States The landlord being himself a politician of no mean order, asked the major what he thought would be the effect of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter But Texas lay south of the Missouri Compromise line, and although small for an independent republic it was huge for a state, and might be cut up into three or four. This Country of Ours The alarm of the nation on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was serious and startling. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 To this general condition must be added the fact that Illinois was the home of Douglas, who was personally and almost solely responsible for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Abraham Lincoln This bill being a virtual repudiation of the Missouri Compromise, excited the most intense feeling. A Brief History of the United States For ten years at least they had been laboring to get rid of the Missouri Compromise. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm But it slept, at least, until suddenly a senator names Douglas awoke it again by bringing in a bill to do away with the Missouri Compromise Line. This Country of Ours To restore that balance the South had consummated the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as a first and indispensable step. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 After the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Lincoln had, as already related, discussed Douglas with great plainness of speech. The Life of Abraham Lincoln In his "Repeal of the Missouri Compromise", P.O. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North Foreseeing this condition, a few Southern planters began a movement for the extension of territory to the south and west immediately after the adoption of the Missouri Compromise. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm They were defeated by Douglas, that same man who had caused the Missouri Compromise to be done away with. This Country of Ours Another was the Missouri Compromise, or, as it is commonly called, the Slavery Restriction. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 It was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise that called him back into the arena of politics. The Life of Abraham Lincoln This project involved the organization of a territorial government and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North At first the measure simply assumed that the Missouri Compromise had been superseded by the Act of 1850. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm This was called the Missouri Compromise; compromise meaning, as you know, that each side gave up something. This Country of Ours It is to this presidential aspiration of Mr. Douglas that we must look as the explanation of his agency in bringing about the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The sudden and rude awakening from this rest came in 1854 with the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Abraham Lincoln It was similar to Weed's plan, but it also provided that the division of the country on the Missouri Compromise line should be established by a constitutional amendment, which would thus forever solidify sectionalism. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North Five supported the Chief Justice on the main points as to the status of the African race and the validity of the Missouri Compromise. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm For all the land south of the Missouri Compromise line had been used up, the only part left being set aside as Indian Territory. This Country of Ours To which Mr. Giddings replied that the south line of the territory was 36 degrees 30', and was already covered by the Missouri Compromise prohibition. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 Upon Stephen A. Douglas rested the responsibility of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Life of Abraham Lincoln It was settled, our fathers hoped, by the Missouri Compromise, but it did not stay settled. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 According to the Missouri Compromise law and the laws of Mexico, all Western territory was free, and he was opposed to interference with existing conditions. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm When that Compromise was made it did not repeal the old Missouri Compromise. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Fortified with this important adhesion, Douglas took the fatal plunge, and on January 23 introduced his third Nebraska bill, organizing two territories instead of one, and declaring the Missouri Compromise "inoperative." Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in 1854, opened up to this free territory the possibility of coming into the Union as a slave state. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Remember what a long stride has been taken since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise! The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 From the date of the Missouri Compromise to that of the Mexican War, this island was united under a single republic, though it was afterwards divided into the two republics of Hayti and San Domingo. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm Q. 6.—"I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, north as well as south of the Missouri Compromise line?" The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates The "ruthless" repeal of the Missouri Compromise had effectually broken the legislative power of the Democratic party. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 He went into the practise of the law in earnest, and was so engaged at the time of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise which called him back to the arena of politics. The Life of Abraham Lincoln I venture to defy the whole party to produce one man that ever uttered the belief that the Declaration did not apply to negroes, before the repeal of the Missouri Compromise! The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 It is this part of the act which is known as the Missouri Compromise. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates The North contended that Congress might and should prohibit slavery in all the territories of the Union, as had been done in the Northern half by the Ordinance of 1787 and by the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The restriction of slavery by the Missouri Compromise directly applies to it—in fact was first made, and has since been maintained expressly for it. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 By the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories to the ingress of slavery, Douglas had pleased the South, but greatly alarmed the North. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 The repeal of the Missouri Compromise came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky to the people of the North. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm I close this part of the discussion on my part by asking him the question again, "Why, when we had peace under the Missouri Compromise, could you not have let it alone?" The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates It is evident that the Missouri Compromise cannot be repealed. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 Some men, mostly Whigs, who condemn the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, nevertheless hesitate to go for its restoration, lest they be thrown in company with the abolitionists. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 I have become perfectly satisfied that it is my duty as a fair minded national statesman, to cooperate with you as proposed in securing the repeal of the Missouri Compromise restriction. Life of Stephen A. Douglas The decision had been agreed upon many months before, and the appeal of the negro, Dred Scott, had been decided by rulings which in no way involved the validity of the Missouri Compromise. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm Some time before the repeal of the Missouri Compromise a lawyer friend said to him: "Lincoln, the time is near at hand when we shall have to be all Abolitionists or all Democrats." Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller Under the ordinary routine it was referred to the Committee on Territories, and on the 4th day of January Douglas reported back his second Nebraska bill, still without any repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 |
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