CHAPTER I.. Restriction and Extension. 1800-1825.

RESTRICTION AND EXTENSION. 1800-1825.

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Commencement of the Nineteenth Century.--Slave Population of 1800.--Memorial presented to Congress calling Attention to the Slave-trade to the Coast of Guinea.--Georgia cedes the Territory lying West of her to become a State.--Ohio adopts a State Constitution.--William Henry Harrison appointed Governor of the Territory of Indiana.--An Act of Congress prohibiting the Importation of Slaves into the United States or Territories.--Slave Population of 1810.--Mississippi applies for Admission into the Union with a Slave Constitution.--Congress besieged by Memorials urging more Specific Legislation against the Slave-trade.--Premium offered to the Informer of every illegally imported African seized within the United States.--Circular-letters sent to the Naval Officers on the Sea-coast of the Slave-holding States.--President Monroe's Message to Congress on the Question of Slavery.--Petition presented by the Missouri Delegates for the Admission of that State into the Union.--The Organization of the Arkansas Territory.--Resolutions passed for the Restriction of Slavery in New States.--The Missouri Controversy.--The Organization of the Anti-slavery Societies.--An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in New Jersey.--Its Provisions.--The Attitude of the Northern Press on the Slavery Question.--Slave Population of 1820.--Anti-slavery Sentiment at the North 1