Excerpt from The Memorial War Book: As Drawn From Historical Records and Personal Narratives of the Men Who Served in the Great Struggle Ed from France in 1803, the present State of Missouri formed a part of the acquired territory. In 1820 Missouri sought admission into the Union as a State, when it was proposed by the North to prohibit slavery in the new State. Discussion it was finally agreed that Missouri should have slavery, but the system was to be prohibited in all the United States territory north and west of the northern boundary. 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.