Volume Iii Part 2 (2/2)

Discovery of Gold.

Resulting Excitement.

Increase of Population.

Gold Yield.

Early Law and Government.

Slavery's Victory.

The Wilmot Proviso.

Taylor President.

Application by California for Admission to the Union.

Clay's Omnibus Bill.

Webster Superseded by Sumner.

Pa.s.sage of the Omnibus Compromise.

California a State.

Enlargement of Texas.

New Fugitive Slave Law.

Revival of Abolitionism.

Underground Railroad.

Rendition of Anthony Burns.

Other Cases.

CHAPTER V. THE FIGHT FOR KANSAS.

Plot against the Missouri Compromise.

Pierce's Election.

The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise.

Squatter Sovereignty.

Anti-slavery Emigration to Kansas.

Political Jobbery by the Slavocracy.

Topeka Convention.

Kansas Riots.

Lecompton Const.i.tution.

Opposed by Free-State Men.

Kansas Admitted to the Union.

a.s.sault upon Sumner.

Southern Repudiation of the Douglas Theory.

Dred Scott Decision.

Startling a.s.sumption of the Supreme Court.

Effect.

Counter-theory.

CHAPTER VI. SLAVERY AND THE OLD PARTIES.

Democracy and Whiggism.

Ambiguous Att.i.tude of the Latter toward Slavery.

The Creole Case.

Giddings's Resolutions.

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