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Henry Clay was a secretary of the state under the president John Q. Adams.

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On Jan.29, 1850, Henry Clay submitted to the Senate a Compromise Plan to solve the controversy arisen between North and South about the new territories acquired after the war against Mexico with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

That plan roughly consisted in following points:

- California should have been admitted with his Constitution in which the slavery was forbidden, without split it into two part.

- In the remnant territories they should proceed to the election of local provisional

governments, without either admitting or prohibit slavery, but deferring this issue

to when new States would have formed.

- The Texas excessive territorial claims had to be rejected, provided that that State

already had enough extent to be the largest Union State.

- The Federal Government would have assumed the burden of Texas's enormous

public debt.

- The slave trade in the District of Columbia had to be forbidden.

- A more efficient law for the recovery of fugitive slaves in the North had to be

promulgated.

- The Congress would not have been allowed to interfere in the slave trade in

being between the States.

John Calhoun proposed a sort of union inside the Union, that is a particular

"Status" for the South as a whole, which took into consideration the existence of

two Nations united in perpetuity but not allowed to interfere each other in their

internal politic. A sort of association like that existing between British Dominions.

In fact Calhoun requested only an amendment of the Constitution which would

grant that "Status".

Daniel Webster, moderately but firmly rebuked the attitude of the southern

extremists, practically rejected Calhoun's proposal and adhered to Clay's

Compromise Plan, which was at the end approved and passed.

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