"That the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is repugnant to the Constitution, to the principles of the common law," etc.
The Whig party, with this election, disappeared; its great leaders were dead, and it could not vie with the Democratic party in pro- slavery principles. There was no longer room for two such parties. The American people were already divided and dividing on the living issue of freedom or slavery. Slavery, like all wrong, was ever aggressive, and demanded new constitutional expositions in its interest by Congress and the courts, and it tolerated no more temporizing or compromises. Its advocates tried for a time to unite in the Democratic party.
(66) Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., pp. 733-6.
(67) Jackson died June 8, 1845, past seventy-eight years of age.
(68) Thirty Years' View, ii., p. 782.
(69) Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., p. 747.
(70) His remains were entombed in St. Philip's churchyard, Charleston, S. C. In 1865, on that city's occupancy by the Union forces, friends seized and secreted them from fancied desecration by the conquerors.—Draper's Civil War in Am., vol. i., p. 565.
(71) Born April 12, 1777, died June 29, 1852.
(72) Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., p. 764.
(73) Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., p. 759.