"The politicians of the House, controlled by the North, would not give up the intention to regulate us into a place where it could hold us down.

'Very well,' said the Senate--and there were a few statesmen in the Senate the--'then you shall not have Maine admitted on your own side of the line!' And that was how Missouri sneaked into this Union--this state, one of the richest parts of the Union--by virtue of a compromise which even waited until Maine was ready to come in! Talk of principles--it was _politics_, and nothing less.

That's your Missouri Compromise; but has the North ever considered it so sacred?
She's stuck to it when it was good politics, and forgotten it when that was more to her interest.

The Supreme Court of the United States will declare the whole Missouri Compromise unconstitutional at no late date.

And what it is going to do with Mr.Clay's compromise, of this year, the Lord only knows." It was young Yates who at length ventured to interrupt in his soft and drawling tones, "I don't see how the No'th can charge us up with much.