. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . olutions com-mitting the Government to annexation. Thethird section provided that four new Statesmight hereafter be formed out of the Territoryof Texas; that such States as were formed outof the portion lying south of 36° 30, the Mis-souri Compromise line, might be admitted withor without slavery, as the people might desire ;and that slavery should be prohibited in suchStates as might be formed out of the portionlying north, of that line. The opponents ofslavery regarded this provision, with goodreason, as derisory. Slavery alreadj existed i
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . olutions com-mitting the Government to annexation. Thethird section provided that four new Statesmight hereafter be formed out of the Territoryof Texas; that such States as were formed outof the portion lying south of 36° 30, the Mis-souri Compromise line, might be admitted withor without slavery, as the people might desire ;and that slavery should be prohibited in suchStates as might be formed out of the portionlying north, of that line. The opponents ofslavery regarded this provision, with goodreason, as derisory. Slavery alreadj existed inthe entire territory by the act of the early set-tlers from the South who had brought theirslaves with them, and the State of Texas hadno valid claim to an inch of ground north ofthe line of 36° 30 nor anywhere near it; so thatthis clause, if it had any force whatever, wouldhave authorized the establishment of slaveryin a portion of New Mexico, where it did notexist, and where it had been expressly prohib-ited by the Mexican law. Another serious. COLONEL(AFTER D. BAKER. (ABOUT l86l.)PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) 5i8 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. objection was that the resolutions were taken ascommitting the United States to the adoptionand maintenance of the Rio Grande del Norteas the western boundary of Texas. All mentionof this was avoided in the instrument, and it was to the annexation of Texas, it is neverthelesscertain that the occupation of the left bank ofthe Rio Grande, without an attempt at anunderstanding, would bring about a country lying between the Nueces and the
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