 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the Compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. The population, of 12/282, that occupied the territory in AD 1800, increased to 45,000 in AD 1818, when... | |
 | Henry County (Ill.) - 1877 - 600 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Winnebago County (Ill.) - 1877 - 662 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Kane County (Ill.) - 1878 - 832 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. x With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the... | |
 | Carroll County (Ill.) - 1878 - 502 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Kett, H.F., & co., Chicago - Illinois - 1878 - 876 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Logan County (Ill.) - 1878 - 616 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in .the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Illinois - 1878 - 886 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | Jones County (Iowa) - 1879 - 686 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
 | McLean County (Ill.) - 1879 - 1092 pages
...the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which...rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and protracted struggle to keep the soil... | |
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In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that this ordinance was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood a rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery. 
