Missouri Compromise

All this is left out of his history, and in nowise alluded to by him, so far as I can remember, save once, when he makes a remark, that upon his principle the Supreme Court were authorized to pronounce a decision that the Act called the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln 1897

Mr. Toombs ridiculed the assertion of Millard Fillmore that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was a violation of a sacred compact.

Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Pleasant A. Stovall 1896

But if this failed, they expected to obtain the end desired by them, by indirection and by the operation of this policy; which was, that the Legislative declaration excluding slavery, under the so called Missouri Compromise, from these Western territories, would prevent the immigration there of

Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union of States, and as to the Grounds of Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right. Gentleman of Mississippi 1863

That feature was simply the provision, since so widely known as the Missouri Compromise, which forever prohibited slavery north of 36° 30´ in all the territory acquired from France by the

Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

Though Lincoln was willing to give in on some matters, even a thirteenth amendment to guarantee slavery where it already existed, when one of the parts of the resulting Crittenden Compromise called for an extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, the whole effort was doomed.

John Marszalek: Why did the Peace Conference in Washington fail in its mission? John Marszalek 2011

Even today, Senator Henry Clay, dubbed the "Great Compromiser," is revered for authoring the Missouri Compromise and the much later Compromise of 1850.

Denis Hayes: Climate Compromise, Not Capitulation Denis Hayes 2010

It may have required an extension of slavery into western territories perhaps using the boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 as the boundary line between free and slave states.

Brent Glass: Could the war have been prevented? Brent Glass 2010

Even today, Senator Henry Clay, dubbed the "Great Compromiser," is revered for authoring the Missouri Compromise and the much later Compromise of 1850.

Denis Hayes: Climate Compromise, Not Capitulation Denis Hayes 2010

Even today, Senator Henry Clay, dubbed the "Great Compromiser," is revered for authoring the Missouri Compromise and the much later Compromise of 1850.

Denis Hayes: Climate Compromise, Not Capitulation Denis Hayes 2010

Even today, Senator Henry Clay, dubbed the "Great Compromiser," is revered for authoring the Missouri Compromise and the much later Compromise of 1850.

Denis Hayes: Climate Compromise, Not Capitulation Denis Hayes 2010