Identifier: makingofamerican00redw (find matches)
Title: The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw), 1849-1942
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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1793 ^ gave them very little protection, and they were demanding a new law. Many slaves escaped from the South to the free states, and it was hard to get them back again. The Omnibus Bill. 1850. — In the congressional debates uponthe questions touching slavery there was much angry feeling, andthreats of secession from the Union were frequently made by theSouthern congressmen. To aid in quieting the threatening storm,Henry Clay, who had retired from public life, returned to theSenate and devoted himself to the restoration of harmony. Headvocated concessions and patience, and finally introduced ameasure which he believed would harmonize the serious differ-ences between the two sections. The Clay compromise consisted of a series of bills for variousthings, which were jointly known as the Omnibuspromfse ^^^^- ^^^^ compromise was strongly opposed at first,and it took many weeks of debate and skillful manage-ment before an agreement was reached. Finally it was found neces- 1 See page 198.
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THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY 285 sary to act upon each of the bills separately ; but by the last ofSeptember, 1850, the whole measure was passed by the Congress.It has been called the Clay Compromise of 1850. It was accept-able to a large majority of the people, who believed that it wouldprevent disunion. The measure provided — The admission of California to the Union as a free state. The organization of the remainder of the Mexican cession into the territories of Utah and New Mexico, without restriction as to slavery.The abolition of trade in slaves, but not of slavery, in the District of Columbia.The payment of $10,000,000 to Texas for territory ceded to the Federal government.^A more stringent fugitive-slave law. The Fugitive-Slave Law. 1850. — The Fugitive-Slave Law (1850)gave to slaveholders the right to pursue fugitive slaves into thefree states, just as the law of 1793 had done; but in addition itimposed a fine upon a marshal or other officer who refused tocomply with the law,

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