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Detroit Free Press @DetroitFreePressJan 6, 1854 · Detroit

There is but one way to get along with the question: exclude both the Wilmot proviso and the Missouri compromise from all territorial bills. Let both houses vote down every proposition relating to slavery — promptly, and without debate.

Original passage & context
"There is but one way to get along with the question, and that is to exclude both the Wilmot proviso and the Missouri compromise from all territorial bills. [...] We trust there will be found majorities in both houses of Congress who will promptly, and without debate, vote down all propositions, as connected with these territorial bills, relating to slavery."

Printed the same day as the Tribune card beside it, and the contrast is the point: a Northern Democratic paper treats the coming bill as a routine piece of territorial housekeeping, and its proposed remedy is silence — vote the slavery question down without debate. The Missouri Compromise is named here as one of two things to be excluded, not as a settlement to be defended.

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One passage from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Jan 6, 1854 – May 29, 1854 — 11 posts, each linked to its primary source.

Part of 134 verified passages across 5 flashpoints, Jan 6, 1854 – Apr 13, 1861 — read the feed from the start.

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