LAD #11

John Calhoun speech dealt with, clays compromise also known as the compromise of 1850. It dealt with what should be done with the land the the us had just acquired form Mexico. Whether is should become free or slave territory. This issue 30 years before had also been in the walls of the capitol when the Missouri compromise was worked out. The compromise took the disputed land form texas and made it in to the states of arizone new mexico and Nevada dn utah. Slavery would not be mentioned in the forming of these states and popular sovereignty would decide whether slavery would or would not exist. This bill took many months to pass thorugh congress but finally it made it thought and it was presentes in this speech by Calhoun which had to be read for him as he was very ill and died only days later.