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. 1922 Excerpt: ...note which public opinion was sounding throughout all the North, and that was the note of compromise. Time and time again this "white virtue"--as Clay had called it--had saved the Union; and it was the sentiment of the Northern States, and of the border States also to a great extent, that a policy of give and take ...
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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...note which public opinion was sounding throughout all the North, and that was the note of compromise. Time and time again this "white virtue"--as Clay had called it--had saved the Union; and it was the sentiment of the Northern States, and of the border States also to a great extent, that a policy of give and take could prevent the dreadful rupture. Many were the schemes of compromise that were brought forward, but the one offered by Senator Crittenden of Kentucky received the widest approval. Crittenden proposed to amend the Constitution in a way that would prohibit slavery north of Parallel 36 30' and permit it south of that line. The proposed compromise if adopted would have taken from the slaveholder his rights under the Dred Scott decision in so far as new States north of the Missouri Compromise line were concerned, but would have fortified him for all time in his rights south of that line. The Crittenden's plan was popular almost everywhere except in the I'lH-linRof... iirotherhood cotton States. Petitions in its favor poured in from all parts of the North and from the border States. But politicians in Congress were not in a mood for compromise. Slavery had become a moral question, and many Republican leaders had come to look on slaveholding as a sin and upon slaveholders as sinners. Such men were out-and-out abolitionists and would have nothing to do with compromise. Of course Southern leaders, who saw no wrong whatever in slavery, resented an attitude which put them in the position of moral outcasts. The result was that in Congress there was no longer a genuine feeling of brotherhood between the two sections. In the corridors of the Capitol, as men of the North and men of the South passed, they looked into each other's eyes with hatred. &q...
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Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Revised Ed. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Average wear, clean except for staining on spine & sm. stain on frt. Innards shaken, text clean & tight.
