. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... orState, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to 644 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. leave the people thereof perfectly free to formand regulate their domestic institutions intheir own way, subject only to the constitu-tion of the United States. Mr. Douglas amendment was at onceadopted, and seemed fair enough on its Chase exposed the hollowness of it byproposing to add to it the following clause,which was promptly voted down : Underwhich the peopl
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... orState, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to 644 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. leave the people thereof perfectly free to formand regulate their domestic institutions intheir own way, subject only to the constitu-tion of the United States. Mr. Douglas amendment was at onceadopted, and seemed fair enough on its Chase exposed the hollowness of it byproposing to add to it the following clause,which was promptly voted down : Underwhich the people of the Territories, throughtheir appropriate representatives, may, if they. SALMON p. CHASE. see fit, prohibit the existence of slaverytherein. The bill was adopted by the Senate by avote of thirty-seven yeas to fourteen nays,and by the House by a vote of one hundredand thirteen yeas to one hundred nays, andon the thirty-first of May, 1854, received theapproval of the President and became a law. The whole country engaged warmly in thediscussion aroused by the re-opening of thequestion of slavery in the Territories. The North resented the repeal of the MissouriCompromise and in the South a large andrespectable party sincerely regretted the re-peal of that settlement. By the passage ofthe Kansas-Nebraska bill the Thirty-thirdCongress assumed a grave responsibility, andopened the door to a bloody and bitter con-flict in the Territories between slavery andfree labor. The events now to be related werethe logical consequences of the repeal of theMissouri Compromise. A few months befc re the final voteupon the Kansas-Nebraska bU the gen-eral government succeedeG in
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