I think and will try to show, that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is wrong--wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska; wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men can be found inclined to take it.
Stevenson argues against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and its implications for slavery.
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