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What was the momentous question or issue that Jefferson was referring to when he said like a fire-bell in the night awakened me and filled me with terror?
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dEBATE OVER THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE:
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Holmes, April 22, 1820.The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 157 .Jefferson refers to the Missouri question, whether to admit Missouri as a slave state but prohibit slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.Holmes was a representative from Massachusetts from 1817 to March 15, 1820, when he resigned to attend the Maine constitutional convention. He was elected to the Senate from Maine and served from June 13, 1820, to 1827, and 18291833. (from Wiki)
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Why did Thomas Jefferson call the Missouri compromise a firebell in the night?
Thomas Jefferson referred to the Missouri Compromise as a " fire bell in the night" because of the fact that he saw it as an extremely pressing matter. A fire bell in the night indicates there is an emergency and Jefferson saw the matter as an emergency. Jefferson knew that the federal government in the person of the Congress was overstepping its constitutional rights by demanding that the State of Missouri - which had chosen to permit black slavery in that state - not be permitted into the Union or be permitted only if the State of Kansas (a free state) also be admitted to assure that the balance of power remained with the North. To Jefferson, this intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign state - Missouri - boded ill for the concept of states' rights. Remember, the first and strongest "check" to federal power was the power of the sovereign States to move against any unconstitutional efforts by the central government via such actions and nullification and secession. Without this power, the States would soon find themselves as politically impotent within the nation as counties are with States.
