Speech of Hon Hannibal Hamlin of Maine in the United States Senate March 9 a
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The territory which we ac- quired from France, known as the Louisiana Ter- ritory, embraced a certain area. Congress in its wisdom saw fit to run a line through it on the parallel of 36° 30', as a fair division of that Ter- ritory. Was it a fair division of another Terri- tory which might lie all south of that line ? An arbitrary line, as a matter of just equity between the parties, could not apply to different Territo- ries. We of the North asked^ only that there should be a just, a fair, and ...equitable distribu- tion, and we would go for it. They would not give it to us, and we went against the measure; but Texas was admitted, and it was admitted upon the basis of the Missouri compromise; and without it, I affirm here to-day, it could not have been admitted. That line, as a compromise, was offered. The amendment which finally prevailed in the House of Representatives was offered by Mr. Brown, of Tennessee. He incorporated into that amendment, I think at the suggestion of the Senator from Illinois, [Mr.
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