Restriction on the State of Missouri

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In this speech, Senator William Pinkney of Maryland defended the Missouri Compromise. Pinkney believed that the compromise would help preserve the Union, but he also insisted that the white inhabitants of Missouri had the right to decide whether to keep owning slaves once their territory became a state.


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