It was first made public in the December 18 edition of the Congressional Globe, and derived some of its stipulations from the failed Corwin Amendment.
It was first made public in the December 18 edition of the Congressional Globe, and derived some of its stipulations from the failed Corwin Amendment. With the exception the incoming secretary of state, it garnered little support among Republicans, and it was also condemned by another official as "amount[ing] to a perpetual covenant of war". It's most important stipulations were the repeal of Personal Liberty Laws, a prohibition against any future constitutional amendment banning slavery, and a permanent reestablishment of the Missouri Compromise, but it failed largely due to Abraham Lincoln's vehement condemnation. FTP, name this 1860 joint resolution, proposed by a Kentucky Senator, a last ditch effort to avert the Civil War.
It was first made public in the December 18 edition of the Congressional Globe, and derived some of its stipulations from the failed Corwin Amendment.
{Crittenden} Compromise