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"This is no time for inaction. [...] There has never been before and perhaps there will never occur again, a conjuncture of circumstances so favorable for the re-conquest of the position which the South has lost by successive compromises of its rights."

The Enquirer is not defending the Missouri Compromise repeal as a restoration of calm but urging it as an opportunity — a chance to recover ground the South believed it had given away in 1820 and 1850. It presses Southern readers to organize meetings and petitions rather than rely on Congress alone.

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"Every day it becomes more and more manifest that the South will be forced to act as a unit when the issue shall be made up on her constitutional right to enter and enjoy the territories of this Union [...] Throughout the North, the Whigs and free-soil Democrats will coalesce. A large portion, indeed, of the body of the Democratic Party at the North will stand firm to the creed they have heretofore held -- they will join with the South in the struggle for Constitutional right."

A Georgia paper forecasting the realignment while the bill is still in the House: Whigs and free-soil Democrats fusing in the North, the South voting as a bloc. It expected a large share of Northern Democrats to hold with the South, which is the half of the prediction that did not hold.

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗