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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ourse of Mr. Clay insecuring the passage of the com-promise measures of 1850 wasiustly regarded as the crowningglory of his life. It won for himthe love and confidence of thewhole country without regard toparty, and the man who hadrather be right than be Presi-dent had the proud satisfactionof seeing all the faults and mistakes of his earlier years for-gotten in the confidence and gra-titude with which his country-men regarded him. He ceasednow to take an active part in thequestions of the day, for it wasfitting that his life should closewith this great service to niscountry. His health failed ra-pidly, but he continued to hold his seat in theSenate until the twenty-ninth of June, 1852,when he died at the age of seventy-five years.Honors were showered upon his memory in ADMINISTRATIONS OF TAYLOR AND FILLMORE. 633 all parts of the Union, and he was laid to his j measures failed to give satisfaction. Therest amid a nations unaffected mourning. ; Fugitive Slave Law was bitterly denounced
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CUBAN FILLIBUSTEKS ON THE MARCH. There were still many extremists bothNorth and South, to whom the -compromise by the Anti-slavery party in the North. Asthe Supreme Court of the United States had ^34 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. decided that the justices of the peace in therespective States could not be called uponto execute the law for the rendition of fugi-tive slaves, a clause was inserted in the Fugi-tive Slave Law of 1850, providing for theappointment of United States commission-ers, before whom such cases could be tried. The Fugitive Slave Law. The Northern States successively enactedlaws for the nullification of the provisions ofthis law. All their jails and other Statebuildings were refused to the federal officersfor the securing of fugitive slaves, and allState, county, and city officers were forbid-den to arrest or assist in arresting or detain-ing any fugitive slave. In many of theStates severe punishmenis were denouncedagainst masters coming within their limitsto

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