- Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
- Title:
- Georgia Platform
- Date of Original:
- 1850-12
- Subject:
- Compromise of 1850
Slavery--United States
Sectionalism (United States)
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Georgia. State Convention (1850 : Milledgeville, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Georgia Platform, Journal of the State Convention of 1850 (incomplete, last page missing)
The Compromise of 1850, dealing with territory acquired during the Mexican War, had numerous critics despite its passage by Congress. Southerners were upset by the admittance of California as a free state, which gave free states a majority of votes in the U.S. Senate. Northerners protested the inclusion of a tough Fugitive Slave Act, designed to appease Southerners. Several Southern states, including Georgia, had highly vocal secessionist movements calling for immediate secession. The Georgia General Assembly authorized a call for a state convention to determine the state's course. Howell Cobb, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs, who represented Georgia in Congress, wielded their influence in Georgia in support of the Compromise. Of the 264 delegates elected to the special convention in November 1850, 240 were Unionists. A Committee of Thirty-three drafted a response, pages 14-26, adopted by a vote of 237 to 19. In it, Georgia gave a qualified endorsement to the Compromise so long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and ceased to attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states. - Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/adhoc/id/1149
- Rights Holder:
- Users may download the images for personal or educational use
- Original Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
Records, Constitutional Convention, Legislature, RG 37-17-31, Georgia Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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