Excerpt from Emancipation Souvenir and Directory of the 37th Anniversary of Our Emancipation The government at this time was acquiring territories and admitting states into the Union. Some already had slaves, some not. Slavery had extended into Missouri and Arkansas. One faction in Congress, championed the side that Missouri should be admitted without slaves; the other, that she should be admitted with slaves. However a bill was introduced by Mr. Talladega of New York, to the effect that any other introduction of slavery into Missouri should be stopped or prohibited. This amendment became a law for a while, but was afterwards defeated, when within a few days a bill was presented for the organization of Arkansas into a territory and a motion made to insert a clause similar to the one organizing the territory of Missouri. The clause was defeated. Missouri was made a territory with slaves, but when she made application for statehood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.