Why, John Quincy Adams himself, Northerner that he was, admitted that Missouri had the right to come in as a slave state, just as much as had Arkansas and Louisiana.

Pocket-politics allowed Congress to trade all of the Louisiana Purchase south of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes, excepting Arkansas, in exchange for the Floridas--and how much chance, how much lot and part had the Missourians in a country so far away as Florida?
The South led us to war with Mexico in order to extend our territory, but what did the South get?
The North gets all the great commercial and industrial rights.

Just to be frank and fair about it, although I am a New Englander and don't believe in slavery, the truth is, the South has paid its share in blood and risk and money, but it didn't get its share when it came to the divide; and it never has." "Precisely, my dear Captain.

I delight to see you so broad-minded and fair.

This plan of mine, to have any success, must be carried out on lines broad-minded and fair." "But how adjust pocket interests on both sides?
You'll see.
You'll be left alone.