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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
ame sense and with the same understanding with which it was originally adopted. （Cong. Globe.) This proposition to revive the Missouri Compromise so as to make it effective in settling the disputes on slavery by extending the line from ocean to ocean, was resisted in the Senate by 21 Northern senators and defeated in the House by 114 members, every vote except one against the pacific measure being from the Northern States. The record shows the abandonment of the Missouri Compromise on August 12, 1848. On that day it fell and was buried in the Senate, where it had originated twenty-eight years before, but had never quieted the Abolitionists a day. It fell, too, not by Southern, but by Northern votes. The very State to which it owed its paternity struck the last decisive blow. （A. H. Stephens Hist., 1, 173.) The treaty with Mexico was finally made, through which the territory acquired passed to the United States with no specific provisions restrictive of slavery, and was ratified in