The special operative gain to the Slave-Masters was the admission of Missouri as a Slave State, with two new slaveholding Senators to confirm their predominance in the Senate; and this was notoriously secured under threats of disunion, by which weak men at the North were intimidated.
Sumner explains how the admission of Missouri as a slave state was achieved through intimidation tactics.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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