A Short Constitutional History of the United States

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3 March 7, 1850. 4 March II, 1850.
THE UNITED STATES 185 the South was to be added the hostile sentiment of pow- erful organizations at the North which were demanding the abolition of slavery. Their demands since 1835 had become more and more exacting, until they practically dominated the general government. The cords which held the two sections of the Union together were snap- ping one by one. The Constitution had been violated ; the Union was in peril of dissolution, and Clay's com- promise c
...ould not save it. Nothing could save it but a return to the original meaning of the Constitution as a compact between sovereign states, under which all pos- sessed equal rights ; therefore Calhoun opposed the com- promise. 1 He spoke for slavocracy and proclaimed its ultimatum.
Three days later Webster replied in his famous 7th of March speech, 2 an appeal for the preservation of the Union. He sympathized with the South, fully agreeing that it had many and serious grievances against the North, chief of which were northern violations of the fugitive slave act.


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