A third bill by Douglas, later in the same year, was also recommitted.

The "Territory of the Platte" was the next attempt to be dropped.

All these crude attempts were merged in the great Compromise of 1850.
The might of party was brought to bear upon all questions of principle, and the country was commanded to be calm; indeed for a time was calm.

It was the time of manacled hands and of manacled minds.

Our government was not a real democracy.