compromise, that is allowing slavery in �Missouri, but no more slavery north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes, Hibshman voted against it, because it was yield- ing the Northern position (do. 1586). He held this stand, though 12 or 14 Northern men voted for the compro- mise, so that it carried, 90 to 87. When

, to prevent the admission of California, the victory was finally won, September 7, 1850. On all motions Stevens consistenly stood by his guns, resolutely opposing the spread of slavery. On the sec- ond of the Compromise mezures, the bil organizing New Mexico and Utah as a territory without the mention

Compromise of 1850, with its strong Fugitive Slave Clause, triggered a debate over slavery that was to gradually erode the influence of the Whig organization. The leaders of the party, including the editors of the Examiner, were extremely con- servative on the slavery issue. When slavery emerged as the prim