Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1

11. IX.

13. VIII:30.
12. IX. CFA

1820-02-12

 12. IX. CFA
12. IX.

Arise, no School, to the House of Representatives, Mr. Pindall of Virginia,1 return, evening at home.

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James Pindall (1765–1825), a Federalist Congressman from what is now West Virginia, argued that Missouri ought to be admitted to the Union without any restriction on slavery ( Annals of Congress , 16 Cong., 1 sess., 1:1265–1279; 2:1282–1290).