Excerpt from The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914 In the following year the Missouri question came up afresh and Senator Thomas of Illinois proposed, as a compromise, that Missouri Should be admitted to the Union with Slavery, but that in all the remaining territory north of 3o???3o' north latitude slavery should be forever prohibited. This amendment was adopted and the bill was passed. The Missouri Compromise was generally considered a victory for the South, ...
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Excerpt from The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 17, 1914 In the following year the Missouri question came up afresh and Senator Thomas of Illinois proposed, as a compromise, that Missouri Should be admitted to the Union with Slavery, but that in all the remaining territory north of 3o???3o' north latitude slavery should be forever prohibited. This amendment was adopted and the bill was passed. The Missouri Compromise was generally considered a victory for the South, but Thomas Jefferson considered it the death knell of the Union. He was still living, at the age of seventy-seven. He saw what this sectional rift portended, and he wrote to John Holmes, one of his correspondents, under date of April 22, 1820: This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened me and filled me with terror. I Considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 32pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Internally tight and near fine, though the yapped outer wrappers are typically a bit chipped. Tight, attractive first edition of this lively reminiscence of the debates by the 80-year-old former "Chicago Press and Tribune" reporter. MONAGHAN 2170.
