Excerpt from Speech of Hon. A. W. Mack, on the Slavery Question in the State Senate, January 20, 1865
In addition to this, in 1804, an immense country was acquired by purchase from France, consisting of some of the richest portions of the valley of the Mississippi, and adapted, throughout a large part of its extent, to the raising of cotton and sugar. This latter staple being equally with cotton adapted to slave labor, added another strong link to the great chain of interests so rapidly developed in favor of the slave power; and the pernicious system of slavery, so oh noxious to every sentiment of justice, so fatal to every interest of humanity, thus fostered and sustained by the selfish interests of mankind, spread rapidly along the valley of the Mississippi until it reached the territory that now forms the State of Missouri, and in 1818 acquired there a power sufficient to demand for this territory admission into the Union as a slave-state.
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