Had Congress at that time firmly insisted that Missouri should enter the Union as a Free State, the vast appropriation now proposed would have been saved, and, better still, this vaster civil war would have been prevented.
He reflects on the historical consequences of Congress's failure to insist on Missouri's admission as a Free State, linking it to the Civil War.
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