An Address to the People of Maine. Washington D.C.: Davis and Force, 1820.
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Five of Maine’s seven congressmen in 1820 voted against the Missouri Compromise because it allowed the spread of slavery: Martin Kinsley, Joshua Cushman, Ezekiel Whitman, Enoch Lincoln, and James Parker. This address, arguing against the Compromise, is signed by four of those five representatives: Kinsley, Cushman, Whitman, and Lincoln.