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ed all our remaining Territories, whether derived from Mexico or France. They terminated the agitation on the Wilmot Proviso, by depriving it of any territory on which it could operate. The Act establishing the Territory of New Mexico provided also for annexing to it all that portion of Texas lying north of 36° 30′ thus withdrawing it from the jurisdiction of a slave State. 5. An Act was passed to abolish the domestic slave trade within the District of Columbia. 9 U. S. Laws, 48, Sept. 20. These five Acts constituted the famous Compromise of September, 1850. At the first, this Compromise was condemned both by extreme abolitionists at the North and by extreme secessionists in the South. By the abolitionist, because it tolerated slavery in New Mexico, and provided for the due execution of the Fugitive Slave Law; and by the secessionists, because it admitted the great State of California as a free State into the Union, and this notwithstanding a considerable part of it li