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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 94 Issue 1, October 1999
Volume	94
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1999
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 1
Page Number	1
Article Title	"A High Wall and a Deep Ditch": Thomas Hart Benton and the Compromise of 1850
Author	Morton, John D.
Subject	Politics; Slavery
Volume	94
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1999
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	Diet. Amer. Ports. Engr. John Rogers "A High Wall and a Deep Ditch": Thomas Hart Benton and the Compromise of 1850 BY JOHN D. MORTON* Privately conceding his doubts about the likelihood of a resolution of the nation's mounting sectional crisis, Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton wrote in January 1850 to a friend in St. Louis: "For all the purposes of beneficial legislation, we are already nearly in a state of disunion." Southern extremists, continued Benton, had begun "organizing a Southern Convention at Nashville, without waiting any further action of congress on the slave question."1 During the ensuing months, Benton's policy decisions con form D. Morton is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the University of Virginia respectively. 1 Thomas H. Benton to John O'Fallon, 17 January 1850, John O'Fallon Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.

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