Excerpt from Eulogium on the Character and Services of the Late John Sergeant: Pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, and a Committee Appointed at a Meeting of Citizens, April 22, 1853 The proviso which the House had inserted in the Missouri bill, against the further introduction of slaves, was stricken out in the Senate by a vote of twenty-two to sixteen. The clause for the freeing of the children of Slaves, was also cancelled, receiving but seven votes. The House, by a vote of seventy eight to seventy-six, refused to concur in this amend ment, and the Missouri bill, at that session, was lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.