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Title: Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 Howard, John R. (John Raymond), 1837-1926, ed John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Slavery
Publisher: New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d already drawn outa Constitution for the new republic which he contemplated, inwhich the slave-holding principle had been given a predominantinfluence. When, in 1850, after much heated discussion both inCongress and throughout the country, Henry Clay, theauthor of the Missouri Compromise of 1821, proposed toconsolidate all past compromises involving slavery,—covering the disputed subjects of Texas boundary, Utahand New Mexico territories, California, partial abolitionof slavery in the District of Columbia, rendition of fugi-tive slaves, and other matters—into one Omnibus bill ofthirty-nine sections, the excitement grew more intense thanever. The essential element of the bill was the yieldingon the part of the South of the admission of California asa free State, and on the part of the North the fugitiveslave clause, which not only allowed Southerners to re-claim escaping slaves but made it the duty of Northern-ers to help them. In 1849 the Congregationalists had established in New
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^^..^^^:^^^ POLITICAL CAREER. §3 York the weekly religious paper called The Independent,having as its editors, Dr. Leonard Bacon, Dr. Richard S.Storrs, Jr., and Dr. Joseph P. Thompson. To this paperMr. Beecher was asked to contribute; and, as the growingconflict between slavery and freedom was at that time themotive of pretty much all political and much social andcommercial activity, it was inevitable that that should bethe line of discussion most attractive to him. His utter-ances were so bold and ringing that the editors, highly asthey appreciated the value of his contributions, both asmoral forces and as journalistic attractions, did not care tobe held responsible for them, and so it came about that hisarticles were usually signed with a star, or large asterisk. Many an article on all sorts and conditions of subjectswent into these Star Papers, and made its mark uponthe sentiment and opinions of the times ; but the paperwhich, it may be almost said, made Henry Ward Beecher anation

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