. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . incorporated in theConstitution whereby, (i) It was made a reserved right of theseveral States to retain or abolish slavery; (2) States retaining thesystem were allowed a three-fifths representation in congress and theelectoral college for their slaves; (3) The foreign slave trade waspermitted to continue for twenty years; (4) The rendition to theirmasters of slaves escaping to another State. The institution, as itcame to be called, gradually receded from the Northern States, andWas
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . incorporated in theConstitution whereby, (i) It was made a reserved right of theseveral States to retain or abolish slavery; (2) States retaining thesystem were allowed a three-fifths representation in congress and theelectoral college for their slaves; (3) The foreign slave trade waspermitted to continue for twenty years; (4) The rendition to theirmasters of slaves escaping to another State. The institution, as itcame to be called, gradually receded from the Northern States, andWashington, as an example, manumitted his own slaves at his death. INFLUENCE OF THE COTTON GIN. About this period slavery received a great stimulus in the Southfrom the invention of the cotton gin a few years before by Eli Whitney, aschool-mast e rfrom Connecticutteaching in theSouth. It was amachine so simplethat the rudestAfrican couldoperate it andseparate the cot-ton seeds fromthe fibre. Thegreat demand forcotton and itspreparation forthe market madethus easy, its SLAVES AND THE COTTON GIN. prOUUCtlOn WaS. THE SLAVEHOLDERS REBELLION. II enhanced, and slavery became profitable in the cotton growing States, upon the termination of the foreign slave trade, reliedupon the border, or slave States adjacent to the free States, for theirsupply of human chattels, and thus the system became a source ofprofit to the entire South. For this it Avas fostered, and itsextension and protection became the chief effort and study ofSouthern statesmen. COMPROMISES FOR SLAVERY — ITS BARBARISM. Slavery became a power in the Nation. Scarcely a questionarose in State or Church, but had slavery as a factor in itsdetermination. Its demands were usually made with the alternativeof a dissolution of the Union. Under such threats, in 1820, a newcompromise was granted the South, by which, in lieu of the admissionof Missouri as a slave State, all territory of the Louisiana Purchasenorth of 36^
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