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.
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The post above is condensed. From the original, word for word
"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."
Between the posts · the narrator, not the paper
January 6. Douglas reported his bill two days ago. Two papers write about it the same morning, one in Detroit and one in New York, and they do not agree about what it is.
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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