nationality to another.

Missouri lies exactly north of the old Missouri compromise line--
that is, 36.30 north. When the Missouri compromise was made it was
arranged that Missouri should be a slave State, but that no other
State north of the 36.30 line should ever become slave soil.
Kentucky and Virginia, as also of course Maryland and Delaware, four
of the old slave States, were already north of that line; but the
compromise was intended to prevent the advance of slavery in the
Northwest. The compromise has been since annulled, on the ground, I
believe, that Congress had not constitutionally the power to declare
that any soil should be free, or that any should be slave soil.
That is a question to be decided by the States themselves, as each
individual State may please. So the compromise was repealed. But
slavery has not on that account advanced. The battle has been
fought in Kansas, and, after a long and terrible struggle, Kansas
has come out of the fight as a free State. Kansas is in the same
parallel of latitude as Virginia, and stretches west as far as the
Rocky Mountains,

When the census of the population of Missouri was taken in 1860, the
slaves amounted to ten per cent. of the whole number. In the Gulf
States the slave population is about forty-five per cent. of the
whole. In the three border States of Kentucky, Virginia, and
Maryland, the slaves amount to thirty per cent. of the whole
population. From these figures it will be seen that Missouri, which
is comparatively a new slave State, has not gone ahead with slavery
as the old slave States have done, although from its position and
climate, lying as far south as Virginia, it might seem to have had
the same reasons for doing so. I think there is every reason to