This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... was unfinished. Once more the Whigs had to accept the second man upon their presidential ticket as President; but Mr. FillFiiimore. more did not thwart them, as Tyler had done. He was more docile than the dead President would have been. The cabinet was immediately reconstructed, with Webster as Secretary of State, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... was unfinished. Once more the Whigs had to accept the second man upon their presidential ticket as President; but Mr. FillFiiimore. more did not thwart them, as Tyler had done. He was more docile than the dead President would have been. The cabinet was immediately reconstructed, with Webster as Secretary of State, and the compromise measures prospered in Congress. The new President followed his party leaders. By September 20 the Senate had accepted all the measures that Mr. Clay had proposed. The House followed suit, passing the bills in such order and combination as it chose, and the Compromise of 1850 was complete. The result was to leave the Missouri compromise line untouched, --for the line still ran all its original length, across the Louisiana purchase of 1803, --but Results of, . thocompro-to open the region of the Mexican cession of mise' 1848 to slavery, should the course of events not preveut its introduction. The slave trade was abolished in;he District of Columbia, but the North was exasperated by the Fugitive Slave Law, which devoted the whole executive power of the general government within the free States to the recapture of fugitive slaves. This part of the compromise made it certain that antagonisms would be hotly excited, not soothingly allayed. Habits of accommodation and the mercantile spirit, which dreaded any disturbance of the great prosperity which had already followed on the heels of the discovery of gold in California, had induced compromise; but other forces were to render it ineffectual against the coming crisis. While Mr. Clay's compromise committee was deliberating, Mr. Clayton, President Taylor's Secretary of State, had concluded with the British authorities, acting through their American minister, Sir Henry Lytton Bulw...
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