Excerpt from Mr. Scott's Speech on the Missouri Question, in the House of Representatives of the United States The second section of the fourth article of the Constitution, provided that the citizens of each State should be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States. The obvious mean ing of this clause was, that the rights of the citizens in one State, should be equal to the rights of the citizens of any other State, and that so far as the citizens of one State had the right to regulate their matters of internal policy, so far should the citizens of any other State have the same rights, privileges, and immunities - not only the rights of the citi zens, individually, but their rights taken collectively as States, were to be equal in all respects whatsoever. For example - if the people of the State of new-york had the exclusive power to make their own constitu tion'and laws, and to provide that slaves should, or should not, be ih troduced, so the State of Missouri, to be equal in power to the State of new-york, must possess the same sovereign authority. 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.