So did the increasing practice of snatching free African Americans from the North into Southern oppression. A newspaper author's retort to one particularly ferocious kidnapping spoke to how these performs insulted Mid-Atlantic whites' pride in living in the Free states. "Fellow citizens," he wailed, "these outrages were committed upon a family of free people in Philadelphia, and on the Sabbath day" (Coffin).
Northwestern states ruled up firmly behind the Tallmadge Amendment, in part because of Missouri's position. If snatching and the slave trade endangered Northerners' chosen remoteness from slavery in the Mid-Atlantic, numerous North westerners vexed that slavery itself would extend into their district. The antislavery population of Illinois had hardly fended off an effort to authorize slavery in their state as recently as 1818, which delivered vital context for why North westerners were so distressed at the outlook of planting slavery in Missouri. In particular, the South's ideas, that states controlled infinite control over slavery seemed intended to assist slavery's misbehavior of its traditional limits. Many Northerners understood that these opinions cancelled the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which to them was a holy idol. Set slaveholders' obsession for state dominance, Representative Daniel Pope Cook of Illinois disbelieved whether they would upkeep the prohibition of slavery north of the recommended Missouri Compromise line. "Are we all to understand gentlemen as surrendering the point," he enquired his colleagues, "that Congress has the control to make that constraint or territorial prohibition continuous and mandatory on the States hereafter?" And to this William Lowndes of South Carolina beamed and shuddered his dome, so Cook bellowed, "Away with your negotiation. Let Missouri in, and the majority of slave impact is settled, and the entire country will be infested with it.
