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Introduction to "Public Acts Passed During the First Session of the Thirty-First Congress, Commonly Called the Compromise Bills."

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The introduction briefly discusses the terms of the "compromise bills" and encourages support for the decisions of the federal government: "There appears no objection from any Southern man to the Fugitive Slave Bill. After the Wilmot Proviso has been repeatedly voted down by Congress--after these important bills to the South (the New Mexico, Utah, and Fugitive Slave Bills,) have passed, also the Texas, the right to settle which belongs to Texas and not us--we ask, after all this has been done, and the whole question has been settled, will the people of Montgomery county--will the people of Alabama, resist on this account? We answer, No! We have too much faith in the good judgment of the people to believe for a moment that they will pursue such a course, and therefore endanger, if they do not destroy, the Union." The pamphlet was published by the printing office of the Alabama Journal, a newspaper in Montgomery, Alabama.
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1851 1851
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Keywords

  1. Alabama
  2. Government
  3. Legislation
  4. Politics And Government
  5. Secession
  6. Slaver
  7. Slavery
  8. Southern States
  9. To 1865
  10. United States
  11. Wilmot Proviso

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