Rewrite John Quincy Adams's diary entry to explain how he felt about the Missouri Compromise. I have favored this Missouri Compromise, believing it to be all that could be effected [accomplished] under the present Constitution, and from extreme unwillingness to put the Union at hazard [risk]. If the Union must be dissolved, slavery is precisely the question on which it ought to break. For the present, however, the contest is laid asleep.

March 3, 1820
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