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Mr. Buchanan's Adminstration on the Eve of the Rebellion
Mr Buchanan's Adminstration on the Eve of the Rebellion Author:James Buchanan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. 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, 1853 -- 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 Lecomp- ton Constitution and proceedings of Congress upon it -- The Republican party greatly strengthened -- Decision of th. e Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case- Repudiated by the Republican party and by the Douglas Democracy -- Sustained by the old Democrecy -- 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 foundation. The thirty-first Congress assembled on the first Monday of December, 1849, and they happily succeeded in averting the present danger by the adoption of one of those wise compromises which had previously proved so beneficent to the country. The first ray of light to penetrate the gloom emanated from the great and powerful State of Pennsylvania. Her House of Eepresentatives 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 favorin...« less