Compromise of 1850.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
John C. Calhoun Papers
Vice president of the United States, U.S. secretary of state and secretary of war, and U.S. senator from South Carolina. Chiefly correspondence, a manuscript of Calhoun's last senate speech, and other papers relating to his career in government.
John C. Calhoun Papers
Vice president of the United States, U.S. secretary of state and secretary of war, and U.S. senator from South Carolina. Chiefly correspondence reproduced from the John C. Calhoun Papers and other collections relating to Calhoun in the custody of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Includes his last Senate speech pertaining to the Compromise of 1850.
Millard Fillmore Papers
United States president, vice president, and representative, and lawyer and educator. Chiefly correspondence of Fillmore relating to slavery; the Compromise of 1850; the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; the Whig Party; congressional politics; Fillmore's daughter, Mary Abigail Fillmore; and a detailed index to the Millard Fillmore Papers in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (now the Buffalo History Museum), Buffalo, New York.
Lewis H. Machen Family Papers
Clerk of the United States Senate and farmer of Fairfax County, Virginia. Chiefly family correspondence of Lewis H. Machen relating to personal matters and national politics prior to the Civil War, especially slavery and the Compromise of 1850, and mentioning John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster. Also includes other correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and miscellaneous papers.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers
Lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, member of both houses of Congress, and vice president of the Confederate States of America. Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, legal documents, clippings, and an autobiography and journal reflecting Stephens’s career in government and politics.