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oom emanated from the great and powerful State of Pennsylvania. Her House of Representatives refused to consider instructing resolutions in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Soon thereafter, on the 4th of February, 1850, the House of Representatives at Washington, by a vote of 105 to 75, laid resolutions favoring this proviso upon the table. Con. Globe, 184-50, p. 276. The way was now opened for compromising all the existing questions in regard to slavery. The bold, eloquent, and patriotic Clay, who, thirty years before, had contributed so much to the passage of the Missouri Compromise, was designated by the voice of the country as the leader in effecting this new Compromise. He did not, in his old age, shrink from the task. In this he was powerfully aided by several of our wisest and most conservative statesmen. The necessary legislation for this purpose was accomplished in September, 1850, by the passage of five distinct acts of Congress These were: 1. An Act to amend and su