id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35662 Landrum, John M. (John Morgan) The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 .txt text/plain 7873 308 63 our Government, slave States were admitted without objection. admission of a State into the Union when her constitution tolerates slave States shall be admitted into the Union, and because we do not agree Now, sir, what do we find in the Constitution of the United States which not legislate to exclude slavery from the Territories, we are the authors only States that made a question on this African slave trade. In a Confederacy of one-half slave States and one-half free Constitution that new States may be admitted into the Union, _without Kentucky was admitted into the Union as a slave State, without objection, of Kentucky as a slave State. giving the slave States additional representation and power in the Senate and he represented the people of the slave States; and no matter what his Louisiana was admitted into the Union, in 1812, as a slave State. Now, sir, what is the state of parties? ./cache/35662.txt ./txt/35662.txt