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