. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Duringhis senatorship he was active in urging his state tosuggest an amendment to the Federal constitution,eliminating the clause that permitted the slave-states to count three fifths of their slaves as partof their basis of representation. If such a measurecould have had any chance of success at that mo-ment, its effect would of course have been to break 152 QUINCY QUINCY up the Union. Mr. Quincy dreaded the extensionof slavery, and foresaw that the existence of thatinstitution was likely to bring on a civil war; butii was not evident then, as
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Duringhis senatorship he was active in urging his state tosuggest an amendment to the Federal constitution,eliminating the clause that permitted the slave-states to count three fifths of their slaves as partof their basis of representation. If such a measurecould have had any chance of success at that mo-ment, its effect would of course have been to break 152 QUINCY QUINCY up the Union. Mr. Quincy dreaded the extensionof slavery, and foresaw that the existence of thatinstitution was likely to bring on a civil war; butii was not evident then, as it is now. that a civilwar in 1861 was greatly to be preferred to civilwar or peaceable secession in 1805. As member of congress, Mr. Quin-cy belonged to theparty of extivmeFederalists knownas the Essex jun-to. The Federal-ists were then in ahopeless minority ;even the Massachu-setts delegation incongress had tenRepublicans to sev-en Federalists. Insome ways Mr. Quin-ry showed a disposi-tion to independentaction, as in refus-ing to follow his /. ,with Randolph s malcontent factionknown as the quids. He fiercely oppn^^d theembargo and the war with England. But hismost famous action related to the admission ofLouisiana as a state. There was at that time astrong jealousy of the new western country on thepart of the New England states. There was a the region west of the Alleghanies would cometo be more populous than the original thirteenstates, and that thus the control of the Federalgovernment would pass into the hands of peopledescribed by New Englandersas Morris had given expression to such afear in 1787 in the Federal convention. In 1811,when it was proposed to admit Louisiana as a state,the high Federalists took the ground that the con-stitution had not conferred upon congress thepower to admit new states except such as shouldbe formed from territory already belonging to theUnion in 1787. Mr. Quincy maintained tiiis posi-tion in a remarkable s
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