1. The Crisis Of Union
... Martin Van Buren) and the pro-administration "Hunkers. The Whigs had the "Conscience" Whigs who battled the "Cotton" Whigs. Conscience Whigs rejected the slaveholder Taylor. The abolitionist Liberty party, nominated Senator John P. Hale for president. In August, these groups - Barnburners, Conscience Whigs and Liberty party followers - organized ... did the same. Calhoun talked about the secession in the South, and Webster talked as an American, not a Massachusetts man. On July 4, 1850, Taylor went to the unfinished Washington Monument, heard all the speeches, and later back in the White...
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