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ould inevitably be the acquisition of suffident territory to form Slave States south of the line of the Missouri Compromise as rapidly as Free States could be formed north of it, and that in this way the ancient equality of North and South could be maintained. （Blaine, vol. I, 46-7.) As soon as it became evident that new territory additional to Texas would be acquired as the result of the Mexican war, the anti-slavery agitation appeared suddenly, August 8, 1846, in a proviso offered by Wilmot to the bill for appropriation of $2,000,000, designed to be used in concluding a peace with Mexico, that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist therein. This Wilmot Proviso absorbed the attention of Congress for a longer time than the Missouri Compromise; it produced a wider and deeper excitement in the country and it threatened a more serious danger to the peace and integrity of the Union. The consecration of the territory of the United States to freedom became from th