Story of the Confederate States Or History of the War for Southern Independenc
Story of the Confederate States Or History of the War for Southern Independenc
Joseph Tyrone Derry
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32. As the Whigs had feared, the gain of new terri- tory reopened the dispute about slavery that had been settled by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Before the close of the war with Mexico, Mr. Wilmot, of Penn- sylvania, tried to get a law passed by Congress to the effect that slavery should not be allowed in any part of the territory to be acquired from Mexico. As a large part of this territory lay south of the line estab- lished by the Missouri Compromise, the Southern peo- ple claimed that ...the passage of any such law would be a refusal on the part of the North to stand by the obligations of that compromise. Each section of the Union had always shown a disposition to preserve a balance of power for the protection of its own interests, and it was perfectly natural that the Southern people should resist what they considered an exclusion of the South from all share in territory won by the common blood and treasure. They also urged that the carrying of slaves to new States was not an extension of slavery, because it did not make a single new slave.
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