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Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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As a free negro was a citizen in some of the Northern * Clays compromise barely got through the Congress. In the Senate it was car-ried by Senators from the Southern and Slave States, against fifteen Senators fromthe Free States. In the House it was carried by a vote of 86 to 82, thirty-five ofthe latter being from Slave States and its bitterest opponents. Randolph denouncedit as a dirty bargain, and called those • Northern men with Southern principleswho were ashamed of them or afraid to stand up for them doughfaces, a termwhich was in convenient and sarcastic use for forty years. The compromise billwas then regarded by its opponents as unconstitutional. The seeds of repeal werein its passage. f So offensive was this election to the extreme Southern members, or rather sosignificant was it of the growth of liberal construction ideas in the Republicanranks, that they chose to see in it a menace to the institution of slavery, and actuallydebated a proposition to secede from the Union.
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HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE U. S. SENATE. 339 340 POLITICAL HISTORY OF States, this was regarded, in its unqualified form, as unconstitu-tionally and offensively restrictive. Debate over the matter tookall the latitude incident to discussion of the slave question andinvolved all its bitterness. Not until Clay again came forwardwith measures of peace did the contention subside. His propo-sition admitted the State, provided the Constitution were soamended as to recognize all the citizens of other States. HerLegislature did this in June, 1821, and she became a State Aug.10, 1821. The electoral vote was counted in February, and the status ofMissouri came up. Denying the right of Congress to interferewith slavery within her borders, the Southern members claimedthat she was already a State, and so determined to count herelectoral vote. The Northern members, claiming authority ofCongress over all Territories for any purpose, until fully qualifiedto enter as States, determined that her electora

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