Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635521
- eISBN:
- 9781469635538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635521.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter begins with biographical sketches of David Rice Atchison of Missouri and Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina. The chapter also discusses the elections of Atchison, Butler, Hunter and ...
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This chapter begins with biographical sketches of David Rice Atchison of Missouri and Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina. The chapter also discusses the elections of Atchison, Butler, Hunter and Mason to the United States Senate, their political allegiance to Calhoun and advocacy of slavery’s expansion westward. It concludes with Calhoun’s opposition to the Compromise package of 1850 and his death one month before its passage.Less
This chapter begins with biographical sketches of David Rice Atchison of Missouri and Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina. The chapter also discusses the elections of Atchison, Butler, Hunter and Mason to the United States Senate, their political allegiance to Calhoun and advocacy of slavery’s expansion westward. It concludes with Calhoun’s opposition to the Compromise package of 1850 and his death one month before its passage.
Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635521
- eISBN:
- 9781469635538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635521.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter discusses the internecine warfare that erupts in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act known as Bleeding Kansas. It focuses David Rice Atchison’s leadership of proslavery ...
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This chapter discusses the internecine warfare that erupts in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act known as Bleeding Kansas. It focuses David Rice Atchison’s leadership of proslavery forces on the ground in Kansas while the remaining members of the Mess lead the senate fight for passage of Kansas’ proslavery constitution. The chapter concludes with the caning of Charles Sumner and the northern democracy’s devastating loses in the 1856 elections.Less
This chapter discusses the internecine warfare that erupts in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act known as Bleeding Kansas. It focuses David Rice Atchison’s leadership of proslavery forces on the ground in Kansas while the remaining members of the Mess lead the senate fight for passage of Kansas’ proslavery constitution. The chapter concludes with the caning of Charles Sumner and the northern democracy’s devastating loses in the 1856 elections.
Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635521
- eISBN:
- 9781469635538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635521.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter discusses the continued political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the disintegration of the F Street Mess becomes a metaphor for the disintegration of the country. In 1860 ...
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This chapter discusses the continued political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the disintegration of the F Street Mess becomes a metaphor for the disintegration of the country. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president and the Democrats lose control of the senate, the last bastion of the slave power. Secession quickly follows and on July 7, 1861 Hunter and Mason, the two remaining members of the F Street Mess, are expelled from the senate for conspiracy against the Union. Less
This chapter discusses the continued political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the disintegration of the F Street Mess becomes a metaphor for the disintegration of the country. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president and the Democrats lose control of the senate, the last bastion of the slave power. Secession quickly follows and on July 7, 1861 Hunter and Mason, the two remaining members of the F Street Mess, are expelled from the senate for conspiracy against the Union.
