Crittenden Compromise

American  

[krit-n-duhn] / ˈkrɪt n dən /

noun

U.S. History.

1. a series of constitutional amendments proposed in Congress in 1860 to serve as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions, one of which would have permitted slavery in the territories south but not north of latitude 36°30′N.

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Etymology

Origin of Crittenden Compromise

Named after its proponent, John J. Crittenden (1787–1863), U.S. senator from Kentucky

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Crittenden Compromise

Abraham Lincoln would not accept such arrangements, for the Crittenden Compromise would require the Republicans to renounce their platform of nonexpansion.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dwellers in the small towns and on the farms were almost unanimously opposed to the Crittenden Compromise.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

Had they now come forward and said, with authority: 'Enable us to pass the Crittenden Compromise, and all shall be peace and harmony,' they would have succeeded without difficulty.

From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2 by John Alexander Logan

This fixes upon Lincoln a considerable responsibility before history, for it seems probable that if the Crittenden Compromise had been carried the Cotton States would not have seceded, and South Carolina would have stood alone.

From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton