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Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER VI
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It was specially embarrassing and perilous for Northern senators to violate pledges so recently made, so frequently repeated.

It much resembled the breaking of a personal promise, and seemed to the mass of people in the free State to be a gross breach of national honor.

To escape the sharp edge of condemnation, sure to follow such a transaction, a pretense was put forth that the Compromise of 1820 was in conflict with the Compromise of 1850, and that it was necessary to repeal the former in order that the doctrine of non-intervention with slavery in the Territories should become the recognized policy for all the public domain of the United States.

Mr.Douglas was the first to adopt this construction.

Indeed, to him may fairly be ascribed the credit or the discredit of inventing it.


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