Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Slavery in the Territories
In this attitude Of the question a proffer was made by South ern members of Congress to effect a truce between the sections by extending the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific Ocean. The proposition was rejected by the Northern mem bers, who, in the stage which the controversy had now reached.
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