Their ideals included hard work, education, economic independence, and the belief that the community had the right and responsibility to decide whether an action was moral or immoral. ... The Compromise of 1850 was a group of acts passed by Congress in the hope of settling the dreaded slavery question by satisfing both the North and South. ... The South regarded the move as a declaration of war. ...

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As Richmond paper publishing supervisor, Thomas Ritchie entered, "the whole country appears agitated by this question.... Losing the fight to limit slavery in Missouri, and Southerners' aggressive declarations during the discussions, led many Northerners to promise opposition to any new slave state or territory. ... " King later renounced some of the radical suggestions of this declaration for slavery beyond Missouri, but it was a sign of how far the debates had pressed some Northerners. ... It convinced many Southerners to highlight the Constitution, narrowly interpreted, at th...

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My question that I set out to answer was to see if the Proclamation was motivated my military necessity or somewhat of a moral wrong that needed to be made right. ... "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest." ... Thus Lincoln was required to be very careful about how he managed the question of emancipation. ...

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