[Scott] was the property of John Emerson, a U.S. Army surgeon who was transferred to Fort Armstrong, III., where slavery was against the law. Emerson was later transferred to what is now Minnesota. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 banned slavery in that territory. Like most slave owners, Emerson believed that he had a right to own slaves regardless of state laws. When Emerson died, Scott and his wife became the property of Emerson's wife. The Scotts sued for their freedom in Missouri and won in a lower court ruling. Mrs. Emerson appealed that decision to the Missouri State Supreme Court, which ruled that the Scotts were still property and should be returned to slavery. After a few legal maneuvers, the case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The framers of the Constitution, [Roger B....
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in May 1854, remains one of the most controversial pieces of legislation ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. Whereas the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had outlawed slavery north of latitude 36 degrees in the former Louisiana Purchase, except for Missouri, the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and permitted the creation of new slave states. Under the principle of "popular sovereignty" expounded by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act affirmed that all questions relating to slavery in the new territories and states should be left "to the people residing therein.
... of Illinois and enshrined in the Compromise of 1850, allowed citizens of each Territory to dec... "border ruffians" crossed over from Missouri to stuff ballot boxes and ensure the election of a... . [Footnote 2] The 1820 Missouri Compromise established that Territories w...
Today, Maine marks its 190th anniversary as a state. If Rep. Henry Joy, R-Crystal, has his way, the state won't reach its 200th - at least not in its current configuration. Rep. Joy wants to divide the state into Northern Massachusetts (the southern and coastal portions) and Maine (that would be the "real" Maine, north of Augusta). As ludicrous as that sounds, that way of thinking dates back centuries. And it continues to curse Maine as it struggles to become prosperous. Before 1820, the District of Maine was part of Massachusetts. After the War of 1812, which devastated Maine more than any other part of New England (the British occupied the coast from Castine to Machias), residents concluded Massachusetts could not provide protection, and so they united in their desire for statehood. M...
.... One compromise after another--from the Missouri Compromise of 182...c reversed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 . d prevented slaveholders from moving from state ...
In March 1857, in the famed Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States. It also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all territories and future new states. By 1861, the United States was fighting a Civil War. Sometimes the Supreme Court makes spectacularly bad decisions and this was manifest on April 2 when five of its nine members yielded to the specious argument by 12 states and several environmental organizations that the science of "global warming" was so conclusive it could declare carbon dioxide (CO2) should be regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as "a pollutant.
.... The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, bot...
A few historians have argued that if these United States of America were a play, the battlefield outcomes of our horrific Civil War completed Act III. In Act I, the creation of a new nation was declared and secured by the American Revolution. The second act laid the foundation for actual governance with our laws, expressed several years later, by the U.S. Constitution. After several years of fits and mis-starts post-revolution, the Articles of Confederation were scrapped in order to form a "more perfect union," as expressed upfront by the Constitution. Surely the new document's preamble may have been "perfect" for some, but in 1860, nearly 4 million slaves were personae non gratae. Well before the ink dried on the new Constitution during those steamy colonial days ...
...From the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850 and Fu...
JEFFERSON CITY -- Speeches celebrating the 46th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans once again brought divisions between secessionists and Unionists into the open. A 33-gun salute -- one gun for each state, including South Carolina -- opened the day's celebration, "and as the sound awoke the echo on the opposite bluffs, so also did it wake the slumbering population of Jefferson City, who after due time wandered their way to the Capitol," the Daily Jefferson Inquirer reported.
... Kentucky statesman who helped craft the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 on s...
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