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Thomas Jefferson Compared the Missouri Debates to "A Firebell in the Night

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Thomas Jefferson compared the Missouri debates to "a firebell in the night" that "awakened and filled me with terror." Why? What was at stake in the Missouri debate that generated such profound concern even though it involved the admission of only one or two states to the Union?


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