Part 6.. _the Period of Preparation._

THE PERIOD OF PREPARATION.

CHAPTER IX.

NORTHERN SYMPATHY AND SOUTHERN SUBTERFUGES. 1850-1860.

Violent Treatment of Anti-slavery Orators.--The South misinterprets the Mobocratic Spirit of the North.--The "Garrisonians" and "Calhounites."--Slave Population of 1830-1850.--The Thirty-first Congress.--Motion for the Admission of New Mexico and California.--The Democratic and Whig Parties on the Treatment of the Slave Question.--Convention of the Democratic Party at Baltimore, Maryland.--Nomination of Franklin Pierce for President.--Whig Party Convention.--Nomination of Gen. Winfield Scott for the Presidency by the Whigs.--Mr. Pierce elected President in 1853.--A Bill introduced to repeal the "Missouri Compromise."--Speech by Stephen A. Douglass.--Mr. Chase's Reply.--An Act to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.--State Militia in the South make Preparations for War.--President Buchanan in Sympathy with the South. 97