In Congress the matter was finally settled by the passage of the famous Missouri Compromise bill, a measure Southern in its origin, but approved at the time by many if not most northerners, and disapproved by not a few Southerners.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
A certain number of Whigs followed Webster, and a certain number of Democrats clung to Benton; but most Southerners were very reluctant to allow pressure to be brought to bear on South Carolina, and many northerners were as willing to compromise as Henry Clay himself.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
These tribes and some other northerners had never seen eye to eye with the southern tribes in a matter most vital to Semitic societies, religious ideal and practice.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth