It was in the year of 1819, when Missouri first decided to try become a state and applied for statehood. They knew it would not be an easy process, but had decided to try and become one anyway. The major problem was, Missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state but with the balance of power between the Senate being equal at eleven states for the North and eleven states for the South, neither side wished the balance of power to be changed in favor for the other. The slave states were Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nor

The agreement to repeal the Missouri Compromise was less than a week old before six antislavery congressmen published a protest, the “Appeal of the Independent Democrats.” The tone of moral indignation, which informed their protest quickly, spread among those who opposed Douglas. The document arraigned his bill “as a gross violation of a sacred pledge,” and as “part and parcel of an atrocious plot” to create “a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.” They called upon their fellow citizens to protest against this “atrocious crime.”

1. For the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners; or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so emancipated; and;

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