The history of the Louisiana purchase . urchase that theconflict between North and South first be-came acute and threatening in the greatstruggle of 1819 and 1820 as to the condi-tions under which Missouri should be admit-ted to the Union. Louisiana had come in in198 what a Century Has Brought Forth 1812 ; the great territory nortli about thesame tmie had received the name this, a little later, Arkansas had beenset off as a territory; and in 1819 the re-gion north of 36° 30, having all the requi-sites for statehood, petitioned for admissionto the Union. Let Missouri come in, said
The history of the Louisiana purchase . urchase that theconflict between North and South first be-came acute and threatening in the greatstruggle of 1819 and 1820 as to the condi-tions under which Missouri should be admit-ted to the Union. Louisiana had come in in198 what a Century Has Brought Forth 1812 ; the great territory nortli about thesame tmie had received the name this, a little later, Arkansas had beenset off as a territory; and in 1819 the re-gion north of 36° 30, having all the requi-sites for statehood, petitioned for admissionto the Union. Let Missouri come in, saidthe country, but shall it come in as freeor slave ? In the in-tense feeling whichthis question aroused,the people for thefirst time awoke tothe seriousness of therift that had beengradually opening. The Missouri Com-promise was the ac-commodation hit up-on at the moment,in arranmns: whichHenry Clay came for-ward into fame as the great being admitted into Missouri, it wasordained by Congress that the region north199. History of The Louisiana Purchase of Missouri should be forever free. The coun-try settled upon this, feeling that the union ofthe States was thereby saved; for a genera-tion, from 1820 to 1854, the act was held asbinding, and peace prevailed. Meantime thecountry was filling up. Missouri became pop-ulous ; Iowa, also on the Purchase, followedher into statehood in 1845 ; and it began tobe plain that the region still farther west andnorth, instead of remaining unoccupied forages to come, as the con-temporaries of Jeffersonhad imagined, was to re-ceive immediately a nu-merous immigration. Then broke upon theland the voice of StephenA. Douglas, proclaimingin the Federal Senate thedoctrine of Squatter sov-ereignty, denouncing theMissouri Compromise asunconstitutional, and de-claring that not Congress, but the settlerswithin a territory alone had power to decidewhether the territory should be slave or free,200
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