قراءة كتاب Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850

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Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2)
or, A History of the Working of the American Government
for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850

Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850

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Court-martial of Lieutenant-colonel Frémont 715 CLXXVII. Frémont's Fourth Expedition, and Great Disaster in the Snows at the Head of the Rio Grande del Norte—Subsequent Discovery of the Pass he sought 719 CLXXVIII. Presidential Election 722 CLXXIX. Last Message of Mr. Polk 724 CLXXX. Financial Working of the Government under the Hard Money System 726 CLXXXI. Coast Survey—Belongs to the Navy—Converted into a Separate Department—Expense and Interminability—Should be done by the Navy, as in Great Britain—Mr. Benton's Speech—Extract 726 CLXXXII. Proposed Extension of the Constitution of the United States to the Territories, with a View to make it carry Slavery into California, Utah and New Mexico 729 CLXXXIII. Progress of the Slavery Agitation—Meeting of Members from the Slave States—Inflammatory Address to the Southern States 733 CLXXXIV. Inauguration of President Taylor—His Cabinet 737 CLXXXV. Death of Ex-President Polk 737 CLXXXVI. Thirty-first Congress—First Session—List of Members—Organization of the House 738 CLXXXVII. First and only Annual Message of President Taylor 740 CLXXXVIII. Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise 742 CLXXXIX. Extension of the Missouri Compromise Line to the Pacific Ocean—Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, and Mr. Clay—The Wilmot Proviso 743 CXC. Mr. Calhoun's Last Speech—Dissolution of the Union proclaimed unless the Constitution was amended, and a Dual Executive appointed—one President from the Slave States and one from the Free States 744 CXCI. Death of Mr. Calhoun—His Eulogium by Senator Butler 747 CXCII. Mr. Clay's Plan of Slavery Compromise—Mr. Benton's Speech Against it—Extracts 749 CXCIII. Death of President Taylor 765 CXCIV. Inauguration and Cabinet of Mr. Fillmore 767 CXCV. Rejection of Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise 768 CXCVI. The Admission of the State of California—Protest of Southern Senators—Remarks upon it by Mr. Benton 769 CXCVII. Fugitive Slaves; Ordinance of 1787—The Constitution—Act of 1793—Act of 1850 773 CXCVIII. Disunion Movements—Southern Press at Washington—Southern Convention at Nashville—Southern Congress called for by South Carolina and Mississippi 780 CXCIX. The Supreme Court—Its Judges, Clerk, Attorney-Generals, Reporters and Marshals during the Period treated of in this Volume 787 CC.

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