...latitude — the Missouri Compromise line — were to be free States ; those south of the line, to " be admitted into the Union with or without slavery...people of each State asking admission may desire." To the original State, the right was accorded to prevent any State being formed out of her territory,...

...territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution ; and such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty- six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise line,...

...the population requisite for a member of Congress, when, if its form of government be republican, it shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide. He dissented from the proposition to admit New Mexico,...

...the population requisite for a member of Congress, when, if its form of government be republican, it shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide. He dissented from the proposition to admit New Mexico,...

...besides the state of Texas herself; and that any and all such states lying south of 36° 30' should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as the people tasking admission might desire. All this was opposed, with all the power that in him lay, by Webster,...

...the population requisite for a member of Congress, when, if its form of government be republican, it shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide. He dissented from the proposition to admit New Mexico,...

...boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population requisite for a member of Congress, it shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide." * This amendment yielded every thing to the North, except...

...boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population requisite for a member of Congress, it shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the Constitution of such new State may provide." * This amendment yielded every thing to the North, except...

...latitude — the Missouri Compromise line — were to be free States ; those south of the line, to "be admitted into the Union with or without slavery...people of each State asking admission may desire." To the original State, the right was accorded to prevent any State being formed out of her territory,...

...latitude — the Missouri Compromise line — were to be free States ; those south of the line, to " be admitted into the Union with or without slavery...people of each State asking admission may desire." To the original State, the right was accorded to prevent any State being formed out of her territory,...