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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
nd the country were again arrayed sectionally into Northern and Southern opponents. Henry Clay, as the recognized representative of conservative sentiment—a Southerner from the middle western border State of Kentucky—came forward promptly in January, 1850, to offer terms of settlement. His warmly expressed patriotic purpose was to effect an amicable arrangement of all questions in controversy between the free and slave States growing out of the subject of slavery. Moved by this spirit, the great Kentucky statesman presented in January, 1850, a series of resolutions covering the admission of California, territorial government for the territories acquired from Mexico; the Texas boundary—the appropriation of ten millions to Texas for payment of its debt; the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and a law for rendition of fugitive slaves. Mr. Clay's plan of settlement differed from that of Taylor, and his administration actively opposed it. Benton vigorously as<