A HISTORY

OF THE

PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES,

FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR.

BY

JOHN BACH MCMASTER,

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

VOLUME VIII.

1850-1861.

ANFORD

NEW YORK AND LONDON:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY

JOHN BACH MCMASTER

183969

Printed in the United States of America

To the Memory of my Mother.

New Hampshire, Florida, New York on extension of slavery

Attempt to extend the Constitution.

Webster and Calhoun on extending the Constitution

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