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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 4 4 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 1 1 Browse Search
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Mr. Buchanan's administration. (search)
1793, and the case of Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, and its pernicious effects the South threaten secession the course of Mr. Buchanan as Senator the Wilmot Proviso and its consequences the Union in serious danger at the meeting of Congress in December, 1849. that the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine wa1848-9). Meanwhile it placed the two sections of the Union in hostile array against each other. The people of the one, instead of regarding those of the other as brethren, were converted into deadly enemies. At the meeting of the thirty-first Congress (December, 1849) serious apprehensions were everywhere entertained, among the most enlightened and purest patriots, for the safety of the Union. The necessity was admitted by all that measures should be adopted to ward off the impending danger.
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Chapter 2: Meeting of Congress in December, 1849 the five Acts constituting the Compromise of September, 1850 effect of the Compromise in allaying excitement Whig and Democratic platforms indorse it President Pierce's happy reference to it in his message of December, 1858 the repeal of the Missouri Compromise reopens the slavery agitation its passage in March, 1820, and character its recognition by Congress in 1845, on the annexation of Texas the history of its repeal this the Kansas and Nebraska Act the policy and practice of Congress toward the Territories abuse of President Buchanan for not adhering to the Cincinnati platform without foundation. The thirty-first Congress assembled on the first Monday of December, 1849, and they happily succeeded in averting the present danger by the adoption of one of those wise compromises which had previously proved so beneficent to the country. The first ray of light to penetrate the gloom emanated from the great and