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Title: Great debates in American history : from the debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Congress Great Britain. Parliament Miller, Marion Mills, 1864-1949
Subjects: Slavery Civil rights Finance Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Publisher: New York : Current Literature Pub. Co.
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beneficent;; it has trodden down no man's liberty; it has crushed
no State. Its daily respiration, its liberty and patriotism; its
yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable
love of glory and renown. It has received a vast addition of
territory. Large before, the country has now, by recent events,
become vastly larger. This Republic now extends with a vast
breadth across the whole continent. The two great seas of the
world wash the one and the other shore. We realize on a
mighty scale the beautiful description of the ornamental edging
of the buckler of Achilles—

220 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES

" Now the broad shield complete the artist crowned,
With his last hand, and poured the ocean round;
In living silver seemed the waves to roll,
And beat the bucklers verge, and bound the whole. "

On motion of Senator Henry S. Foote (Miss.) the
Clay resolutions were, on March 12, 1852, referred to
a Committee of Thirteen, who were instructed to " ma-
ture some schome of compromise for the adjustment of
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WEBSTER STEALING CLAY'S THUNDER WHILE FOOTE IS TALKING THE SENATE
TO SLEEP
From the collection of the New York Historical Society

all pending questions growing out of the institution of
slavery. The question of this reference was warmly debated,
developing into a discussion of all the aspects of slavery.
While interesting, the discussion brought forward no
new arguments and is here omitted.
The debate on the Clay compromise was interrupted
by the death of Senator Calhoun on March 31, 1850. Ex-
tended tributes were paid to him in the Senate and the

THE OMNIBUS BILL 221

House by his Northern political opponents as well as by
the statesmen of the South.
On April 3 John Bell (Tenn.) submitted in the Sen-
ate certain resolutions along the line of those of
Senator Clay, but more favorable to the South, and more
specific, especially in the matter of the return of fugitive
slaves. They were referred to the Committee of Thir-
teen if it should be appointed.
Finally on April 18, 1850, the question was put to
form the Committee of Thirteen and decided in the
affirmative by a vote of 30 to 22.

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