Prologue to conflict : the crisis and compromise of 1850 / by Holman Hamilton ; with a new introduction by Michael F. Holt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Holman, author.

Holt, Michael F., author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compromise of 1850.

United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a threat to the precarious sectional balance, and Northerners feared an extension of slavery. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.</P>

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. Forty-Nine and Forty-Niners; MAPS; The State of Deseret, 1849-51; CHAPTER II. The Rising and the Setting Suns; CHAPTER III. The Appeal of a Venerable Kentuckian; Four Proposals for Dividing Texas Soil; CHAPTER IV. Equilibrium or Union-Calhoun or Webster?; CHAPTER V. A Pattern Defined; CHAPTER VI. The Wreck of the Omnibus; CHAPTER VII. The Texas Bond Lobby; CHAPTER VIII. Douglas, the Maker of Combinations; CHAPTER IX. Allegro Whistles and Cannon Salutes; CHAPTER X. The Compromise in Operation; APPENDIXES

APPENDIX AAPPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780813183084

0813183081

9780813158310

0813158311

OCLC:

903960653