Download At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union AudioBook Free
In 1850, with Northerners demanding that slavery be outlawed in the vast new place America had just bought in the Mexican- North american Warfare, Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. Veteran statesman Henry Clay proffered a solution: the Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union from dissolution for the next ten years and provided the North period to build its professional might so that it could defeat the South once secession was at hand. Historian Robert V. Remini masterfully shows how Clay's identification of the need for bipartisanship in times of crisis preserved the Union—not once, but double.
