Is it not a little strange that that class of people who have hitherto scouted at the idea of "compromising with slavery" -- who have always fought against adhering in good faith to the Missouri line, and extending it to the Pacific -- and with whom the Wilmot proviso has been a sine qua non -- should suddenly have become sticklers for the Missouri compromise; a measure which, if they had the power, they would sweep from the statute book at a single dash, and erect upon its ruins a Wilmot proviso covering the whole territory of the Union?
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