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ts were uttered on both sides. Southern members threatened a dissolution of the Union. There was much adroit management by the party leaders, who used great dexterity in trying to avoid a compromise—for one party insisted upon Missouri entering, if at all, as a free-labor State, and the other party insisted that it should enter as a slave-labor State. But compromise seemed to be the only door through which Missouri might enter; and, by adroit management, a compromise bill was carried, March 2, 1820, by a vote of 134 against 42. John Randolph denounced it as a dirty bargain, and the eighteen Northern men who voted for it as doughfaces. There was an almost solid North against admitting Missouri as a slavelabor State. President Monroe consulted his cabinet concerning the constitutionality of the act. The matter was allowed to go over until the next session, and it occupied much time during that session. At length Henry Clay moved a joint committee (February, 1821) to consider whe
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ses Missouri bill with a clause prohibiting the further introduction of slaves, 93 to 84......Feb. 29, 1820 Senate returns the Missouri bill to the House with slavery clause struck out and Senator Thomas's territorial proviso inserted......March 2, 1820 Committee of conference advises the Senate to recede from its amendment to the Maine bill, and the House to pass the Senate Missouri bill; House strikes out from the Missouri bill the prohibition of slavery, 90 to 84, and inserts the Thomas proviso, 134 to 42......March 2, 1820 Maine admitted (the twenty-third State) by act of Congress approved......March 3, 1820 Congress authorizes the people of Missouri to form a State government......March 6, 1820 Duel between Com. Stephen Decatur and Com. James Barron at Bladensburg, Md.......March 22, 1820 Congress abolishes the sale of public lands on credit......April 24, 1820 Congress organizes the first committee on agriculture......May 3, 1820 Congress authorizes a l