Excerpt from The Review of a Generation States. But the leaders of the South were not satisfied with this. They insisted that the limitation of the territorial limits of slavery was equivalent to a decree for its extinction, for the preponderance of the free States would ultimately become so great that the others would be Wholly in their power. 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.