Its Mary Smith. I have some news for all of you today. You know how i said that we didn't know what was going to happen to the new territory added in the Mexican Cession, well now we do! The compromise of 1850 was passed but it was complicated. Let me start from the beginning........... First Wilmot Proviso (a guy who the North loved) tried to get a proposal passed that would outlaw slavery in the new territory, but as you may have guessed this didn't go through. There was many other problems other than the new territory being slave states or free states but im not going to go into all of that because i believe this was the biggest issue. Sectionalism is a major problem right now in the United States and it seems there is nothing that will even make it a little but better. However there are a couple of guys who think they might be able to help. These men go by the names of Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Daniel Webster. They put together a document that they feel will not only solve the controversy about the new territory entering as slave or free but also all the other problems!(I know sounds impossible). Other than there so called "solutions" to the other problems that the U.S. was facing, they failed to mention the Mexican Cession other than that it was going to be organized into territories! Ridiculous right?! William Seward is an abolitionist from the North that we all love and he tried to tell them that the Compromise of 1850 was bad and that you could not compromise on slavery but it still ended up being passed. Since slavery was not mentioned in the document that means that the states future relies on popular sovereignty which was a vote deciding whether or not it will be a slave state. I don't agree with this at all because I think that slavery should be completely abolished and not something that is voted on! However it is late and i must go make dinner i will write again soon.
(heres a picture of that William Seward guy I was talking about)
No comments:
Post a Comment