Essentials of United States history . y question. As the anti-slavery partyin the North constantly grew larger, the pro-slavery senti-ment in the South became more and more aggressive. Theadmission of California as a free state in 1850 gave the balance of power in the UnitedStates Senate to the Free State))arty. From that time the states-men in the South began theirpreparations for a separation fromthe Union. They did not chooseto plan for revolution, but theythought to avail themselves ofwhat they consideredtheir right to secede. ^j^^ nothing in theConstitution itself favored thiss
Essentials of United States history . y question. As the anti-slavery partyin the North constantly grew larger, the pro-slavery senti-ment in the South became more and more aggressive. Theadmission of California as a free state in 1850 gave the balance of power in the UnitedStates Senate to the Free State))arty. From that time the states-men in the South began theirpreparations for a separation fromthe Union. They did not chooseto plan for revolution, but theythought to avail themselves ofwhat they consideredtheir right to secede. ^j^^ nothing in theConstitution itself favored thissui)i)()so(l right, yet in the earlydays of the reixiblic many in different parts of the countryheld to the belief that a state had the right to withdrawfrom the Union. As time went on, this belief diminished inthe North and increased in the South. The great statesmanof South Carolina, John C. Calhoun, maintained it firmly,and through his teaching and that of other eminent South-erners the doctrine came to be generally accepted in the. Davi>
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