. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . atitude of 36° 30—the line of that Missouri Compromise—decided this and setapart the territory to freedom, but imaginary lines, even when fixed by law andby the consent of all parties, were no bar to pro-slavery presumption. In 1846, when President Polk asked for $2,000,000 as a basis for the nego-tiation of peace, David Wilmot, representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, hadmoved what is known as the Wilmot Prov
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . atitude of 36° 30—the line of that Missouri Compromise—decided this and setapart the territory to freedom, but imaginary lines, even when fixed by law andby the consent of all parties, were no bar to pro-slavery presumption. In 1846, when President Polk asked for $2,000,000 as a basis for the nego-tiation of peace, David Wilmot, representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, hadmoved what is known as the Wilmot Proviso, which declared that it should be a con-dition to the acquisition of any territory from Mexico that neither slavery norinvoluntary servitude should ever exist in any part thereof, except for crime,whereof the party should be duly convicted, At two different times this com-promise was adopted in the House, but rejected in the Senate. An appropriationof $3,000,000 was finally passed without the proviso, but the proposed measurehad made David Wilmot famous as a champion of free soil. The principles ofthe Wilmot Proviso formed the foundation of a new political CHAPTER XV. SENATOR DOUGLAS AND THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL. FROM 1849 to 1854 Mr. Lincoln was engaged in the work of his profession as alawyer. Zachary Taylor was inaugurated president March 4, 1849, havingbeen elected not only by a plurality, but by a majority, of the vote of the ElectoralCollege, although some southerners had voted against him because he had notcome out squarely in favor of the extension of slavery. On the third of B. Riley, military governor of California, issued a call for a conventionof the people of California, to form a state constitution. This convention washeld, and adopted a constitution, by the terms of which slavery was expresslyprohibited. President Taylor presented the constitution to Congress, and therepresentatives of the new state, all Democrats, stood knocking
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