A history of the United States for schools . ZACHARY § 30 SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 353. MILLARD (including Arizona) — were organized without the Wil- mot Proviso; (2) The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, and, in return, a stringent law was passed for the arrest of fugitive slaves in the northern states. Many people believed that these compromises would set the slavery question at rest. In July, 1850, PresidentTaylor died, and Vice-President Millard Fill-more took his was nothing moreof moment in the course of this administration, exceptthat a
A history of the United States for schools . ZACHARY § 30 SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 353. MILLARD (including Arizona) — were organized without the Wil- mot Proviso; (2) The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, and, in return, a stringent law was passed for the arrest of fugitive slaves in the northern states. Many people believed that these compromises would set the slavery question at rest. In July, 1850, PresidentTaylor died, and Vice-President Millard Fill-more took his was nothing moreof moment in the course of this administration, exceptthat a party of filibusters invaded Cuba, in MiHard1851, in the hope of annexing it to the United They were defeated, and their leader, Lopez,was executed at Havana. In 1852, the Whigs nominated Winfield Scott, theother hero of the Mexican War, and the Democratsnominated Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, a secondinstance of a dark horse. The Free-Soil ^, , The elec- party nominated another New Hampshire man, tionofJohn Parker Hale, who obtained no electoralvotes. There was to
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