Democratic (constitutionalist) President James Buchanan, of the united States, signs the protectionist Morrill Tariff Act, raising import duties on manufactured goods up to 38%, their highest levels in history, up to this time.
NOTE: The act passed the Senate by a vote of 25 to 14. If the abstentions of the seven seceded Confederate States had been counted as NO votes, the act would have failed by a vote of 28 to 25.
[restored 3/13/2022]
A lawfully elected Senate (in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]) passes, and sends on to the States for ratification the Corwin Amendment which would prohibit Congress from proposing any amendment that would abolish slavery.
NOTE: Had this amendment passed, and if the Gulf States had returned to the Union they would have had an ironclad guarantee that slavery would not have been abolished without their consent.
[restored 3/13/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I, Section 8 [Clause 1]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 164.
Corwin Amendment – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment#Legislative_history
Livingston – A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
mises.org/library/moral-accounting-union-and-confederacy
Morrill Tariff – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Tariff
Current U.s. National Debt:
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