In an effort to soothe the accentuating divisiveness over slavery, Whig (nationalist) Senator Henry Clay, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, introduces his eight-point Compromise of 1850:

• Admission of the republic of California as a free State;
• Establish of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico—without dealing with the slavery question;
• Secession of all Republic of Texas land claims simultaneously north of the 32 degrees North parallel, and west of the 103 degrees West meridian; and north of the 36 degrees, 30 minutes North parallel;
• Assumption of the Republic of Texas’ debt by the federal government;
• Abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia;
• Preservation of slavery in the District of Columbia;
• Passage of a more draconian Fugitive Slave Act; and
• Congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce in slaves.

       [restored 2/5/2022]