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JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
LATE TICKNOr & Fields, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.

1875.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,

BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS TO VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

ADMISSION OF FLORIDA.

Slavery made a national interest. - Equilibrium in the United States

Senate.

motion.

motion.

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Mr. Pettit's

- Mr. Morse's

Mr. Evans's

Iowa and Florida united in the same bill.

Remarks by Mr. Levy, Belser, and Hunt.

Remarks by Mr. Bayly. Mr. King's motion.

amendment on imprisonment of colored seamen. — - Remarks by Walker,

Archer, Berrien, and Choate. - Amendment lost

CHAPTER II.

MEXICAN WAR. WILMOT PROVISO.

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Protest of the Mexican minister. - American government refused inter-

course with the Mexican government. General Taylor ordered to

advance to the Rio Grande. Ampudia requests General Taylor to

return to the Nueces. General Taylor attacked by General Arista.—

Mexicans defeated. - President's message. Views of Mr. Calhoun.

Remarks of Clayton, Crittenden, and Cass. - The House declares that

war exists by act of Mexico. Passage of the war bill in the House;

in the Senate. - Debates in Congress. The President asks for two mil-

lions for the settlement of boundaries. - Two-million bill reported. —

Mr. Wilmot's motion to exclude slavery from territory to be acquired

of Mexico. — Amendment agreed to. — Fails in the Senate

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CHAPTER III.

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CONTIN-

Remarks

Meeting of Congress. - Message.

of Mr. Wood. Brinkerhoff, Stephens, Bayly, Dowdell. - Mr. Ham-

lin's amendment. Three-million bill reported. - Berrien. — Upham's

amendment. - Mr. Webster's Views. Wilmot's amendment lost.

Treaty of Peace. — Declarations of Mr. Trist. — Potency of slavery. -

Meeting of XXXth Congress.—Mr. Winthrop elected Speaker. - Mr.

Putnam's resolution. — Root's bills for California and New Mexico.

Amendment excluding slavery. - Mr. Walker's amendment. - Action

of House. Defeat of measure for prohibiting slavery. Mr. Thomp-

son's amendment. Agreed to by the House. - Rejected by the Sen-

ate. Victory of the Slave Power

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CHAPTER IV.

EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY FROM OREGON.

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Characteristics of Slave Power. Oregon, its boundaries and govern-

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ment. Winthrop proviso. Douglas's bill. - Burt's amendment.

New bill. - Hale's amendment. - Senate debate. - Bright's motion.

Calhoun's new dogma. - Underwood's speech. Remarks of Baldwin,

Niles, Berrien, Johnson, Dix. Calhoun's position. - His character. —

Berrien, Phelps, Davis, Mason, Johnson of Georgia, Jefferson Davis.

Clayton's proposition. - Compromise committee. - Report. Great de-

bate.Clarke's amendment. Baldwin's amendment. John Davis's

amendment. Passage of the Clayton bill. Laid on the table in the

House. - Caleb B. Smith's bill. Palfrey's amendment. - Passage of

the bill in the House. - Douglas's proposition. — Remarks of Mason,

Dayton, Webster, Butler, Calhoun, Niles, Reverdy Johnson. — Rejec-

tion of Foote's motion. Extension of the line of the Missouri com-

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promise. Passed in the Senate. - Defeated in the House. Menacing

demands of Mr. Calhoun. Benton's motion. Remarks of Bell, Hous-

ton, and Benton. - Benton's motion agreed to. - Passage of the Oregon

Message of the President. - Triumph of freedom

bill.

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CHAPTER V.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION OF PROPERTY IN MAN.

FUGITIVES. KIDNAPPING.

Domestic slave-trade stimulated. Slaves escaping. -Eastern Pennsylva-

nia. - Active friends of the slave. -- John Jay. Case of the Mobile.

Before the courts. Arguments of Jay and White. The slave set at

liberty. Brazilian vessel. Escape of slaves from the Tombs.Slave

case in Boston. Forcible abduction in the harbor. — Meeting in Fan-

euil Hall. — John Quincy Adams. —Speeches of Sumner, Stephen C.

Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker. - Personal liberty laws. —

Unfriendly legislation in New Jersey, New York. -- Opposition to anti-

slavery press.
Decision of Supreme Court affirming the right of prop-
erty in man. - Government sale of slaves

Essential violence of slavery. - Escape of slaves. - Workings of Under-

ground Railroad. - Characteristics of Western society. - Heroic endur-