- GLC#
- GLC06313.03-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 3, 1820
- Author/Creator
- Sampson, Zabdiel, 1781-1828
- Title
- to Aaron Hobart
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket : free frank Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Briefly reports the passage of the Missouri Compromise: "The question, so long debated in Congress of excluding slavery from our territories is settled, by the passage of a bill...which excludes slavery forever, from the whole of the American Continent lying & being north and west of the State of Missouri."
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