. The student's American history . h sectionstook up the Missouri question. Public meetings in Boston,New York, Philadelphia, and even in Baltimore, demandedthat Congress should put a stop to the spread of slaverybeyond the Mississippi. The Legislatures of Pennsylvania,Ohio, and Indiana warmly seconded this demand. The South generally took the opposite stand. Virginia andKentucky called for the admission of Missouri without condi-tions, declaring that the attempt to restrict slavery was a directattack on State-rights. 1819-1830.] IIIE UNION, NAllONAI. 289 A new Congress met in D
. The student's American history . h sectionstook up the Missouri question. Public meetings in Boston,New York, Philadelphia, and even in Baltimore, demandedthat Congress should put a stop to the spread of slaverybeyond the Mississippi. The Legislatures of Pennsylvania,Ohio, and Indiana warmly seconded this demand. The South generally took the opposite stand. Virginia andKentucky called for the admission of Missouri without condi-tions, declaring that the attempt to restrict slavery was a directattack on State-rights. 1819-1830.] IIIE UNION, NAllONAI. 289 A new Congress met in Deccinbei, 1819, ami Missouri againpetitioned for admission. The discussion of the question ofrestriction was then laken up in the Senate and very ablyargued. Rufus King, of Now \Ork, was the champion of freesoil, and William Tinkney, the brilliant Maryland lawyer,defended the cause of slavery. Missouri had no soonerpresenteil her petition in the House than the District ofMaine, recently separated from Massachusetts (§ 105), asked.
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