Franklin Pierce And His Administration

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Franklin Pierce And His Administration
Sidney Webster
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The Wilmot Proviso defeated Cass and elected Taylor, a slave-owner. Calhoun then pro- claimed the new dogma that slave-labor could, Digitized by Google 49 would, and should go into this new Mexican ac- quisition by force of the Constitution, and there remain until dislodged by a positive law. At that time the designations of Whigs as " Cotton Whigs " and " Conscience Whigs," and of Demo- crats as " Hunkers " and " Barnburners," came into use. The Wilmot Proviso was the test. '^ Squat- ter sover...eignty " was then invented by Cass, to encounter congressional effort to control slavery in a Teriitory.
President, Taylor, " in order," as Mr. Schouler says, " to avoid all congressional extension, for the present^ of the Wilmot Proviso," urged Con- gress to admit California as a State immediately, with her free-labor Constitution, and do nothing with New Mexico and Utah. Against that there was a general resistance in Congress, and imme- diately thereafter Clay proposed in the Senate his scheme of compromise, which finally prevailed.


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