Tallmadge proposed something called the Tallmadge Amendment which is a bill to forbid the further introduction of slavery into Missouri and to request the Territory of Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a free state. It also states that he doesn’t support the abolition of slavery in Alabama because it was surrounded by slave holding states and with imaginary lines of division, free blacks and slaves mingling couldn’t be prevented and, could possibly start a war. Gentlemen disagreed with Tallmadge and, had “harsh expressions” about the whole thing, Tallmadge's amendment caused a horrible reaction from southern congressmen, mostly from Border States, such as Virginia, which looked to the new territories as a market for their dangerous surplus
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He’s also saying that if we believe in God and believe that nothing exists except by his will, then we should believe that slavery is not “against” the law of God. He tells people to compare slavery to all of the situations facing people in other parts of the world and to also look at the lower classes in those countries, by far the majority of their population; the thousands of beggars in their streets. Pickney also says that they (Congress) are no more authorized to ban slavery in a territory of Missouri than in a state, because the result will be the same. What Pickney is saying is that the slaveholding states may have more than half of that debt to repay; even if they only have 1/2 to repay, “how is it fair that those lands should be open only to those who do not have slaves”, that this will “deny them the tools of agriculture and the means of their comfort, and prevent them from settling there”. Pickney is saying the Eastern and northern states will suffer if that happens, as they are in the business of transporting the products created in the south and shipping to the south the merchandise imported from Europe. There “may be division of this Union, and a civil war”. He “defends” slavery by saying that no one knows how far the northerners in Congress will go to ban slavery, he also says that northerners don’t know how much slaves
He’s also saying that if we believe in God and believe that nothing exists except by his will, then we should believe that slavery is not “against” the law of God. He tells people to compare slavery to all of the situations facing people in other parts of the world and to also look at the lower classes in those countries, by far the majority of their population; the thousands of beggars in their streets. Pickney also says that they (Congress) are no more authorized to ban slavery in a territory of Missouri than in a state, because the result will be the same. What Pickney is saying is that the slaveholding states may have more than half of that debt to repay; even if they only have 1/2 to repay, “how is it fair that those lands should be open only to those who do not have slaves”, that this will “deny them the tools of agriculture and the means of their comfort, and prevent them from settling there”. Pickney is saying the Eastern and northern states will suffer if that happens, as they are in the business of transporting the products created in the south and shipping to the south the merchandise imported from Europe. There “may be division of this Union, and a civil war”. He “defends” slavery by saying that no one knows how far the northerners in Congress will go to ban slavery, he also says that northerners don’t know how much slaves