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lITerritories was prohibited. The Slavery ques
lIion, 80 far as it was a national one. was IN
ilderstood to be finally settled, and, ct the SAM
time, the States had already taken up and wer'
carrying forward system Of gradual emanci
patton. In 1880 Louisiana was acquired BY
purchased from France, and included what il
lInow known as the States of Louisiana, Missou
lri, Arkansas and Iowa, and territories known
as Kansas and Nebraska. Slavery existed al
the time in New-Oileans and st. Louis. and SC
the purchase resulted in bringing the Slavery
question again before Congress. In 1919 the
region Immediately surrounding New Orleans,
applied for admission into the Union, under
the name OF the State of Louisiana, with a
constitution tolerating slavery, and the free
states acquieseed. Eight years afterward,
the region connected with st. Louis demand
led admission, under the name of the State of
Missouri, With constitution tolerating Slavery.
The free states reverted to the principles of
ll787, and opposed the admission Of Missouri,
unless she would incorporate into her consti-
luton an inhibition of the further introduction
of slavery into the state. The slaveholding
states insisted upon her unqualified admission
A controversy arose, which was sectional and
embittersd, and which we are assured by CO.
temporaneous history, seriously imperled the
Union The statesmen of that day in Congress
settled the controversy by compromise. By
the terms Of this compromise, the free states
assented to the admission Of Missouri, with her
slaveholding constitution, while the slavehold-
ling states, on their part, yielded the exclusion
of slavery IN all the residue of the territory
which lay north of 56deg. S0mi,, constituting
the present territory of Kansas and Nebraska,
The slaveholding states accepted the compro-
mise as triumph, & the free states have ever
since leftit undisturbed and unquestioned,- -
Arkansas, part of the territory Of Louisiana,
which lay south Of S6deg. 3Omi.. in compliance
with an implication which was contained in this
compromise, was afterwards admitted as a
slaveholdisg state, and the free states scquies.
ced. In 1919, Florida, slsvehOlding province
of Spain, was acquired. This province was af-
.erwards admitted as slaveholding state
The free states again acQuiesced. In 1895.
Texas, an independent slaveholding state was
annexed, with provision in the article of an
nexaton for the subdivision of her territory
into FIVE states, although they regarded the
anne xation, With the probable increase Of the
humber of slaves, with very great disfsvor,
nevertheless acquiesced again. New terrific
ries we're acquired by the treaty Of peace which
closed the war with Mexico The people o.
california formed constitution inhibitng sla,
very, and applied for admission into the Union
Violent opposition was made by the slave states
lin and out of Congress, threatening the disso-
luton Of the Union If California should be ad-
mitted. Proceeding on the ground of these
alarms, Congress adopted another compromise
the terms of which were, that ten millions OF
dollars of the peoples money should be given
10 Texas, to induce her to reEnquish a very
doubtful claim upon an inconsiderable part o.
New Mexico That New Mexico and Utah
should be organized without an inhibitiCn o
slavery, and that they should be afterwards ad
Knitted as slave or free ststes, as the apeopIe
when forming constitutions, should determine
that the public slave trade in the District o
columbia should be abolished without affect
ing the existance Of slavery in the District ;ant
new and rigorous provisions for tbs rscaptur
Of fugitive slaves Of disputed consttutionality
shopld be adopted and pnt On .hsse srditiQn
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