Download or read book A History of the People of the United States, From the Revolution to the Civil War, Vol. 8 of 8 written by John Bach McMaster and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the People of the United States, From the Revolution to the Civil War, Vol. 8 of 8: 1850-1861 The failure of Congress, during the long session of 1848, to set up government in New Mexico and California was followed in the autumn by another outburst of feeling North and South. Citizens in mass meetings, Governors in their messages, legislatures in their resolutions approved or condemned the principle of the Wilmot proviso, and demanded that it should, or should not, be applied to New Mexico and Cali fornis. The new Governor of South Carolina, in his ln augural, hoped that God would avert the doom impending over the country, but, until He did, let it be known that South Carolina would never consent to meet her co-partners in Federal Council save as an equal and a sovereign; let it be known that she counted all danger as nothing in com parison with political degradation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.