For six long months, Clay led the controversial debate. Mississippi Senator Henry Foote proposed condensing the resolutions into a single bill, which Clay described as “a kind of omnibus” into which Foote introduced “all sorts of things and all kinds of passengers.” The idea caught on, and Clay supported the Senate`s first “omnibus bill.” He announced that it was “neither south nor north. It is the same thing; That`s right; It is a compromise. On July 22, Clay delivered his last major speech in the Senate, calling for the passage of the Omnibus Act. If passed, Northern California would receive as a free state and an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C., while the South would receive a stricter slave law for refugees and the possibility of Western slavery through popular sovereignty. This compromise, Clay stressed, represented the “reunification of the Union.” When the full compromise was not passed, Douglas divided the omnibus bill into separate bills that allowed members of Congress to vote or abstain on any issue. The untimely death of President Zachary Taylor and the rise of pro-compromise Vice President Millard Fillmore to the White House contributed to the passage of all bills. Calhoun died in 1850 and Clay and Webster two years later, making their role in the Compromise of 1850 one of their last acts as statesmen. If it is determined by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America meeting in Congress that the following proposals shall be submitted to the State of Texas and are hereby submitted to such proposals as shall, if approved by that State by an Act of the General Assembly, bind and bind the United States: and for the said State of Texas: provided that the said consent of the said General Assembly be given not later than the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty: FIRST. The State of Texas shall accept that its boundary shall begin north at the point at which the meridian of one hundred degrees west of Greenwich is intersected by the latitude of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, and from that point runs due west to the meridian of one hundred and three degrees west of Greenwich; thence its boundary extends due south to the thirty-second degree north latitude; thence to the said latitude of thirty-two degrees north latitude to the Rio Bravo del Norte and thence with the channel of the said river to the Gulf of Mexico. SECOND.
The State of Texas assigns to the United States all its claims to territory outside such boundaries and limits as it is prepared to establish by the first article of this Convention. THIRD. The State of Texas waives any claim against the United States for liability for the debts of Texas and for compensation or compensation for the surrender of its ships, forts, arsenals, customs offices, customs revenues, weapons and munitions of war and public buildings and their locations that became the property of the United States at the time of annexation. FOURTH. The United States, taking into account this fixing of boundaries, the allocation of –, territorial claims and the attribution of claims to the State of Texas, will pay the sum of ten million dollars in a share that carries five per cent. Interest repayable after fourteen years, payable semi-annually to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. FIFTH. Immediately after the President of the United States has received an authentic copy of the Act of the General Assembly of Texas accepting such proposals, he shall arrange for the shares to be issued to the State of Texas, as provided in Article IV of this Convention, provided also that not more than five million such shares shall be issued until the creditors of the State hold securities of the claim. and other specifically pledged Texas stock certificates shall first file with the U.S.
Department of the Treasury discharges of all claims against the United States for or related to such debt instruments or certificates in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President of the United States, provided that nothing herein is contained herein. Shall be interpreted so as to prejudice or qualify anything contained in the third article of the second section of the “Joint Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States” adopted on the first of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-five; either in terms of the number of states that can then be formed from the state of Texas, or otherwise. The Missouri Supreme Court has consistently ruled under the laws of neighboring free states that slaves who had been voluntarily transported by their slavers to free states with the intention that the slavers would live there permanently or indefinitely would gain their freedom. [4] The 1793 law dealt with slaves fleeing to free states without the consent of their slaves.
