Evaluate the Extent of Acquisition of New Territories Contributing to Sectional Tensions and the Outbreak of the Civil War

Map of the Compromise of 1850 with a key that shows: Free state or territory, Territory open to slavery under the principle of popular sovereignty, Slave State or Territory

In a government where sectional interests and feelings may come into conflict, the sole security for q permanence and peace is to be found in a Constitution whose provisions are inviolable...

Advertisment warning freedmen in Boston of the slave catchers as a result of the Fugutive Slave Act.

An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it, at every hazard...

We charge . . . that [the Constitution] was formed at the expense of  human liberty, by a profligate surrender of  principle, and to this hour is cemented with human blood...

Political Cartoon titled 'Forcing Slavery down the throat of the Free Soiler!'

All for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way...

It was by the delegates chosen by the several States . . . that the Constitution of the United States was framed in 1787 and submitted to the several States for ratification...

The [Secessionists] invented an ingenious s~phism, which, if  conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps, through all the incidents, to the complete destruction of the Union...