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Horace Mann AQS 1850 Compromise

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Horace Mann AQS 1850 Compromise
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Horace Mann autograph quotation signed. Single page, octavo, datelined Washington, 12 September 1850. In full: “The intellect of the world must grow stronger, and its heart must grow purer, before the former can adequately comprehend, or the latter appropriately feel, the moral turpitude of the Bill, which the House of Representatives has this day passed, nominally for reclaiming slavery but really for perilling the liberties of freemen. / Horace Mann.” The Compromise of 1850 attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies which were straining the union between the North and the South. The tensions became especially acute when Congress began to consider whether western lands acquired after the Mexican War would permit slavery. The five statutes called for the admission of California as a free state; provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and amended the Fugitive Slave Act. The Compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who was in opposition. Succeeding President Taylor was Millard Fillmore, a strong supporter of the compromise. It temporarily defused sectional tensions in the U.S., postponing the secession crisis and the American Civil War. The various compromises lessened political contention for four years, until the relative lull was shattered by the divisive Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In fine condition.