2. That there must be "free soil for a free people."
3. "No more slave states, no more slave territories."
4. That we will inscribe on our banners "Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men."
They also asked for cheaper postage, and for free grants of land to actual settlers.
The Whigs won the election.
%374. Zachary Taylor, Twelfth President.%—Taylor and Fillmore were inaugurated on March 5,1849, because the 4th came on Sunday. Their election and the triumph of the Whigs now brought on a crisis in the question of slavery extension.
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%375. State of Feeling in the South.%—Southern men, both Whigs and Democrats, were convinced that an attempt would be made by Northern and Western men opposed to the extension of slavery to keep the new territory free soil. Efforts were at once made to prevent this. At a meeting of Southern members of Congress, an address written by Calhoun was adopted and signed, and published all over the country. It
1. Complained of the difficulty of capturing slaves when they escaped to the free states.
2. Complained of the constant agitation of the slavery question by the abolitionists.