In 1820, when admission of Missouri as a slave state threatened to upset the fragile balance between slave and free states in the Senate, Thomas Jefferson said “this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” The slaveholder More
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