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This 4 page paper discusses an 1850 article that appeared in the "American Whig," in favor of retaining slavery in the territories as they joined the U.S. Endnotes list two sources.
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South felt that territories that were joining the Union as states should be allowed to come in as slave-owing states while the North felt the opposite. The unresolved debate over
the question of admitting states as slave or free is one of the underlying issues of the Civil War. This paper discusses the opinion about extending slavery into the territories
as reported in the American Review of 1850. (This is the same paper, as far as can be discerned, as the American Whig Review.) Discussion In an article entitled Policy
of the Nation in Regard to Slavery and Its Extension, the author, who is not named, argues that there are three distinct lines of policy that can be followed in
the discussion of whether or not slavery should be permitted in the territories, and proposes to discuss the first one, namely, that the nation as a whole can follow the
lead of the North and abolish slavery in all the territories by an act of the federal government.i He argues the issue based on expediency not constitutionality. Of course by
framing the debate in those terms, he already slants it in favor of whatever position he wants to take. He argues that "A measure may be constitutional but it
may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a sentiment of disrespect towards the minority ...
It may be impolitic, creating formidable dangers for the Commonwealth ... and against which the nation cannot defend itself."ii Then he says that just such a dangerous measure would
be a law passed by Congress "by a mere majority" abolishing slavery, "if it exists, and forbidding it if it does not exist, in every portion of the national territory."iii
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