F. H. Hodder The Authorsship Of The Compromise Of 1850

In the past, compromises seemed to work for a short period of time but would often quickly end in a failure. By the time 1860 rolled around, any new compromise ideas that would truly work seemed to be vanishing. Numerous amounts of compromise ideas had already been tried. New ideas were beginning to come in short and unsuccessful. Also the country had been more unified previously.

One such compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) which also had its origins in westward expansion as well as the expansion of human bondage (slavery). With the passage of Henry Clay’s controversial Compromise of 1850, came the birth of a harsher fugitive slave Act in 1850. Much more specifically it came about due to the slaveholders’ outrage at the success of the underground railroad. Clay compromised that California, after its recent population increase due to the gold rush in 1849, would be brought into the union as a free state and the slave trade in Washington D.C. would be outlawed. However, in return, for the South, a new, stricter, fugitive slave law would be passed.

Mr. Deane wrote a concise and accurate report for the Governor tracing the history of the boundary, grants and treaties to present day. A copy of “Deane’s Report,” as it was referred to, was sent to the President of the United States, the governors of each of the states of the union and to each of our foreign

Shaping The Courts of America: The Judiciary Act of 1789 On the 17th of September in 1787, the delegates of the thirteen American colonies gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and signed the document that is known as the Constitution of the United States of America. On the 21st of June in 1788, the Constitution had been ratified by eleven of the thirteen colonies, and other laws and acts were being discussed as well by the representatives. While the Constitution had done a phenomenal job at creating and outlining the legislative system in Article 1 and the executive system in Article 2, it was very vague when describing the judiciary system and its powers in Article 3. As a result, the Senate deemed it necessary to appoint a committee responsible for making judicial outline.

The Crittenden Compromise and Alexander H. Stephens’s “Corner Stone” speech are two significant pre-Civil War sources that serve to give students of history insight about the ultimate cause of secession and the War: slavery. Both documents discuss the issue but from different angles. The first document, The Crittenden Compromise, was a midnight hour attempt to prevent the Union from splitting in two. It presented six articles for amending the Constitution and four resolutions for Congress.

On January 29, 1850, Henry Clay proposed five resolutions to this conflict, they were reviewed and revised and put into one, both opponents were not satisfied with the bill and the senate declined the bill. Supporters of the bill separated the five proposals into five different bills and the were passed, becoming the Five Bills of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was to try to keep both northern and southern states somewhat satisfied on the issue of slavery in the new states. It made California a free state, New Mexico, and Utah had the right to choose if they wanted to be free slaves or not, the District of Columbia abolished slavery, Texas loses territory to New Mexico and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed forcing northerners

Douglas won the Illinois senate seat with his answer that later became known as the Freeport Doctrine. The only drawback was that his answer further alienated the South which led to him being stripped of power in the Senate and also contributed to the division of the Democratic

Politics were was the most vital part of the Civil War, arguments over slavery, secession, and civil rights headed the political field. Henry Clay(1777-1852) was a powerful force in politics during and before the Civil War Era, Clay was a U.S. congressman, senator, presidential nominee, a foremost proponent of the “American System”. Clay’s experience in the politics gave him the name the “Great Compromiser” due to brokering important agreements during the Nullification Crisis and the issue of slavery. Clay was a dominant member of the Whig party and was a high ranking senator and representative in the House of Representatives, but Clay’s most important contribution to the Civil War were his deals to compromise over the status of slavery in

Even with this great compromise, the North and the South still found it difficult to agree with another and were beginning to spiral out of control. Almost on the verge of war Clay decided he needed a strategy in order to beat the North and South at their own game. Instead of making his comprises one big bill, he split it into five groups, therefore making it impossible for both sides to turn it down completely. They would be able to vote against the five bills they liked and disliked without voting completely against one big bill. In August and September, the Senate and the House voted to approve all of Clay’s five bills; which became the Comprise of 1850.

The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt by the U.S Congress to settle divisive issues between the North and South, including slavery expansion, apprehension in the North of fugitive slaves, and slavery in the District of Columbia. The Compromise of 1850 failed because Senator John C. Calhoun from the South and Senator William Seward from the North could not agree on what Henry Clay was putting down. Part of the compromise was to make California a slavery free state which benefits the North, and enforcing a stricter fugitive slave law which benefits the South. Both the North and South opposed what the other was benefiting from. What sparked the failure of the Compromise was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

The outcome of the very close election of 1824 surprised political leaders. The winner in the all-important Electoral College was Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, with ninety-nine votes. He was followed by John Q. Adams who secured eighty-four votes. William Crawford trailed well behind with just forty-one votes. Although Jackson seemed to have won a narrow victory, receiving 43 percent of the popular vote versus just 30 percent for Adams, he would not be seated as the country 's sixth president.

The Breakdown of the Compromise of 1850 After the Mexican war, the balance of the slave and free states was being tested by the new state of California. If California was admitted as a free state, the southerners would succeed, while the northerners would revolt against the admittance of California as a slave state. The reasons for this reaction by the North and the South was because of slavery, and of the Senate’s balance. The main reason why the admittance of California was so heavily weighed, was because of the balance in the Senate. Since the North had a greater population, they had control over the House of Representatives, while the balance in the Senate was perfectly equal.

On May 22nd, 1856, the “world's greatest deliberative body,” The United States Senate was met with chaos. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, a member of the House of Representatives, Preston Brooks, beat Senator Charles Sumner because of Sumner's hostility toward slavery. The caning of Charles Sumner is regarded as one of the most dramatic incidents in the history of the United States Congress, provoking strong emotions from citizens of the South, who approved of Brooks’ actions, as well as from citizens of the North and West, who disapproved. Charles Sumner was a radical abolitionist republican senator who hated the Kansas-Nebraska Act which helped slavery expand west by nullifying the Missouri Compromise. On May 19th, Sumner decided to give a speech to the United States Senate called “crime against Kansas” in which he argued Kansas should enter the union as a free state.

Tensions were become increasingly dangerous in regard to slavery. On January 29, 1850 Clay proposed a series of resolutions to reconcile the North and the South. This compromise would become widely regarded as the Compromise of 1850. Clay is given much credit for this compromise and the positive affects it had on calming the tension between North and South.

There were many important Compromises between the years of 1820 and 1860, some that worked completely and some that didn’t. In the early nineteenth century, people were good at compromising and making things work for everyone. How long did perfect compromising actually last? Slavery began to split the nation apart, causing compromising to become hard to do.