The history of the Louisiana purchase . 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 imme
The history of the Louisiana purchase . 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. what a Century Has Brought Forth At once the doctrine was embodied in theNebraska Bill (the whole vast expanse westof Iowa and north of Missouri being knownas Nebraska), which presently became thelaw of the land. Kansas, being set off, forth-with became the scene of troubles whichcould end only in war. Though in the tumults preceding thecivil war the Louisiana Purchase w^as tosuch an extent the theater of important de-velopments, it lost that gloomy distinction assoon as the cannon began fairly to good conduct of Frank Blair and Na-thaniel Lyon early made Missouri secure forthe Union; there were battles elsewhere in thePurchase, indeed, but none really compared with w^hat went forward eastof the river, the conflicts were not sad four years lapsed slowly on, soburdened with anxiety, with pain, with indeed was the catastrophe to whichthe Yankee inventor of 1793 had brought us !But the Union was saved, to the immenseadvantage, as we b
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