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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902. (from old catalog) Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ey would have slavery or not. The Whigsnominated General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, and placed onthe ticket with him Millard Fillmore of New York. Theirprinciples were not pronounced; but Taylor was a Southernerand carried a large part of his section with him, while VanBurens vote lost New York to the Democrats. Thus Taylorand Fillmore were elected; but the South soon regretted thefact, for the new President showed himself friendly to theanti-slavery men by urging the admission of California as afree state. References. — General Works : same as for Chapter XIX. Special Works : same as for Chapters XXII. and XXIII., with theaddition of : H. Wilson, History of the Bise and Fall of the Slave Poioerin America, Vol. II., chaps, ii.-iii.; H. H. Bancroft, Pacific States, Vol.VIII.; Winfield ^coit, Memoirs; U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol.1.,chaps, iii.-xiii. 1 An uncomplimentary name given them by their opponents on account oftheir supposed ievolutionary opinions on political matters.
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PART V. THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1850-1861. CHAPTER XXIV. THE ADMINISTRATION OF TAYLOR AND FILLMORE, 1849-1853. THE QUESTION OF CALIFORNIA. 390. General Conditions. — The period of controversy uponwliicli we are about to enter, was caused by the opposing inter-ests and feelings of the North and South on tlie subject ofslavery. In the early history of the country, the balance ofpower had been kept even by the alternate admission of freeand slave states. But the admission of Texas, and still more,the results of the Mexican War, enlivened the hopes of theSouth, while the Wilmot Proviso (§ 388) showed that the Northwas fully aware of the great interests involved in the annexa-tion of- any new territory capable of supporting slavery. 391. Claims of the South. — The people of the South, espe-cially those of South Carolina and Mississippi, which had perhapsbecome the most influential states in political matters, assertedthat the Fugitive Slave Law, provided for by the Constitutionand e

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