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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas, Allen Clapp, 1846-1920. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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pposition to the measure among the southern mem-bers of Congress. During the discussion of the question thePresident died, and the Vice-President, Millard Fillmore,assumed the duties of the Presidential office. 270. Difficult Questions before Congress. (1849-1850.) — Texas claimed that her western boundary was the river RioGrande to its source. This claim took in territory whichhad always been considered a part of Mexico. But theTexans persevered in their claim, supported by the Southas a whole. Should California come in as a free state?Should New Mexico and Utah be organized as territorieswith or without slavery? Should the claims of Texas begranted? These were the questions before the Congress of1849-50. Another matter was also forcing itself into notice.The South complained that the old fugitive slave law of1793, for the return of runaway slaves to their owners, wasnot enforced, and was also inadequate. The North on itsside complained of the slave trade in the city of Washington,
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HENRY CLAY. COMPROMISE OF 1850; FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. 249 declaring it a disgrace to the country. It was now evidentthat the question of slavery had got into politics and wouldstay there until some settlement could be made. 271. Compromise of 1850.—Extremists on both sides de-manded secession as the only remedy, while the moderatemen of both sides believed that some arrangement like theMissouri Compromise could be made. As Henry Clay cameforward in 1820 as the Great Pacificator, so now throughhis influence a committee of the Senate prepared Avhat isknown as the Omnibus Bill, because it provided for somany different things. It was a compromise measure de-signed to settle all existing troubles. Its different provisionswere taken up separately, and finally passed one by one withlittle modification. This arrangement is known as the Com-promise of 1850. The chief points were (1) the admissionof California as a free state; (2) the organization of NewMexico and Utah as territories without re

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