Thirdly: During all the discussion of these measures in Congress, and afterwards before the people, and through the public press, at the North and the South alike, no person was heard to intimate that the Prohibition of Slavery in the Missouri Act was in any way disturbed.
Sumner points out that throughout the debates, no one suggested that the prohibition of slavery from the Missouri Act was affected by subsequent measures.
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