. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... s rejected by the Anti-slaveryparty. The Missouri Compromise line hadbeen limited to the Louisiana purchase,which was entirely slaveholding, and hadnade more than one-half of it free- To 628 FROM THE kEVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. extend the line to the Pacific would be togive the South a chance to establish slaveryin territory which was fi-ee at the time of itsacquisition by the United States, The NorthWould not listen to such a proposition. During the last s
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... s rejected by the Anti-slaveryparty. The Missouri Compromise line hadbeen limited to the Louisiana purchase,which was entirely slaveholding, and hadnade more than one-half of it free- To 628 FROM THE kEVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. extend the line to the Pacific would be togive the South a chance to establish slaveryin territory which was fi-ee at the time of itsacquisition by the United States, The NorthWould not listen to such a proposition. During the last session of Congress inMr. Polks administration, an effort had beenmade to establish territorial governments forUtah and New Mexico, but had failed in the supreme law of the land, it was superioito any territorial law or act of Congress abol-ishing slavery; and that the constitutionclearly and unequivocally established andprotected slavery in the Territories. Mr. Webster, speaking for the north, de-clared that the constitution was designed forthe government of the States, and not for theTerritodes. Congress, he said, had the !;ht.
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