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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 137

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carrying it forward.
In 1848, Mr. Crittenden resigned to become Millard Fillmore's attorney general and continued in that office throughout the administration. In 1855, he was again returned to the senate serving a full term. During this term he introduced the famous Crittenden compromise which proposed that slavery should be forever prohibited in territory north of 36 [degrees] 30' and forever permitted south of that line: that when a territory becomes a state its people shall settle its condition, free or slave; that the United States shall pay the owners of slaves full value for any slaves prevented from capture by violence or intimidation. Concerning this, Mr. Blaine says, "but for eminent respectability and patriotism of the venerable senator from Kentucky the propositions would have had short consideration. They were of such a

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135 carrying it forward. In 1848, Mr. Crittenden resigned to become Millard Fillmore's attorney general and continued in that office throughout the administration. In 1855, he was again returned to the senate serving a full term. During this term he introduced the famous Crittenden compromise which proposed that slavery should be forever prohibited in territory north of 36 [degrees] 30' and forever permitted south of that line: that when a territory becomes a state its people shall settle its condition, free or slave; that the United States shall pay the owners of slaves full value for any slaves prevented from capture by violence or intimidation. Concerning this, Mr. Blaine says, "but for eminent respectability and patriotism of the venerable senator from Kentucky the propositions would have had short consideration. They were of such a