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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Vii. The Missouri struggle. (search)
of a free country — as citizens of a great and rising Republic — as members of a Christian community — as living in a liberal and enlightened age, and as feeling ourselves called upon, by the dictates of religion and humanity, we have presumed to offer our sentiments to Congress on this question, with a solicitude for the event far beyond what a common occasion could inspire. The House Committee, of course, reported the bill without restriction, and it came up as a special order. January 24, 1820. Mr. Taylor moved its postponement for a week, which was voted down — Yeas 87; Nays 88. It was considered in Committee the next day, Missouri impatiently awaited admission. as also on the 28th, and 30th, and thence debated daily, until the 19th of February, when a bill came down from the Senate to admit the State of Maine into the Union, with a rider, authorizing the people of Missouri to form a State Constitution, etc.--the connection being intended to force the Missouri measure t