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ampshire on a platform repudiating the Compromise measures, declaring against the aggressions of the slave power and for: "No more slave States, no slave territory, no nationalized slavery, and no national legislation for the extradition of slaves. That slavery is a sin against God, and a crime against man, which no human enactment or usage can make right; and that Christianity, humanity, and patriotism alike demand its abolition. "That the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is repugnant to the Constitution, to the principles of the common law," etc. The Whig party, with this election, disappeared; its great leaders were dead, and it could not vie with the Democratic party in pro- slavery principles. There was no longer room for two such parties. The American people were already divided and dividing on the living issue of freedom or slavery. Slavery, like all wrong, was ever aggressive, and demanded new constitutional expositions in its interest by Congress and the courts, and it tolerated no more temporizing or compromises. Its advocates tried for a time to unite in the Democratic party. (66) _Thirty Years' View_, vol. ii., pp. 733-6. (67) Jackson died June 8, 1845, past seventy-eight years of age. (68) _Thirty Years' View_, ii., p. 782. (69) _Thirty Years' View_, vol. ii., p. 747. (70) His remains were entombed in St. Philip's churchyard, Charleston, S. C. In 1865, on that city's occupancy by the Union forces, friends seized and secreted them from fancied desecration by the conquerors.--Draper's _Civil War in Am._, vol. i., p. 565. (71) Born April 12, 1777, died June 29, 1852. (72) _Thirty Years' View_, vol. ii., p. 764. (73) _Thirty Years' View_, vol. ii., p. 759. (74) _Ibid_., p. 765. (75) _Hist. of the U. S._ (Rhodes), vol. i., pp. 134 (190). (76) _Hist. Pac. States_, H. H. Bancroft, vol. xviii., p. 262. (77) _Thirty Years' View_, vol. ii., p. 770. (78) Cass died March 17, 1866, eighty-two years of age. XVII NEBRASKA ACT--1854 Over the disposition of the Territory of Nebraska it remained to have the last Congressional struggle for the extension of slavery. This Territory in 1854 comprised what are now the States of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. It was a large part of the Louisiana Purchase, in area 485,000 square miles, twelve times as large as Ohio, about ten times the size of New York, 140,000 squ
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