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5311. MISSOURI QUESTION, Portentous.—[continued].

Last and most portentous
of all is the Missouri question. It is
smeared over for the present; but its geographical
demarcation is indelible. What it
is to become I see not.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 212. Ford ed., x, 189.
(M. 1821)