The next of the series is the Missouri compromise, which excluded the
South from that large portion of Louisiana which lies north of 36 deg. 30',
excepting what is included in the State of Missouri. The last of the
series excluded the South from the whole of Oregon Territory. All these,
in the slang of the day, were what are called slave territories,' and
not free soil; that is, territories belonging to slaveholding powers and
open to the emigration of masters with their slaves. By these
several Acts the South was excluded from one million two hundred and
thirty-eight thousand and twenty-five square miles--an extent of country
considerably exceeding the entire valley of the Mississippi. To the
South was left the portion of the Territory of Louisiana lying south of
36 deg. 30', and the portion north of it included in the State of Missouri,
with the portion lying south of 36 deg. 30' including the States of
Louisiana and Arkansas, and the territory lying west of the latter, and
south of 36 deg.
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