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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 repeal gives rise to the Kansas troubles their nature and history the Lecompton Constitution and proceedings of Congress upon it the Republican party greatly strengthened decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case repudiated by the Republican party and by the Douglas Democracy sustained by the old Democracy 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 found