The North would not stop to consider its prospective advantages in the territory yet to be settled, while the South could see nothing else.

The South realized that although it had secured five States and the North only two, Southern territory was exhausted, while the creation of free States in the North-West had just begun.

Stripped of all the disguises with which it was surrounded by the specious cry of non-intervention by Congress, the majority in the North came to see that it was in reality nothing but a struggle between the slave States and the free States, growing more and more intense and more and more dangerous day by day.
REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
The most striking result in the political field, produced by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, was the utter destruction of the Whig party.

Had the Southern Whigs in Congress maintained the sacredness of the work of 1820, the party throughout the country would have been able to make a sturdy contest, notwithstanding the crushing defeat of Scott two years before.

Not improbably in the peculiar state of public opinion, the Whigs, by maintaining the Compromise, might have been able to carry the Presidential election of 1856.