Minnesota and Oregon, inevitably destined also to become free, were applying for admission to the Union.
[Sidenote] Official Manifesto, Oct.

8, 1754.
[Sidenote] Senator Brown to Adams, June 18, 1856.

Greeley, "Am.
Conflict," Vol.

I., p.

278.
[Sidenote] Official proceedings, Pamphlet.
Still, the case of the South was not hopeless.