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Browsing named entities in Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1. You can also browse the collection for 1849 AD or search for 1849 AD in all documents.
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 27 : in the Thirtieth Congress, 1847 -48 . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 31 : thirty-first Congress, 1849 -50 . (search)
Chapter 31: thirty-first Congress, 1849-50.
The first session of the Thirty-first Congress opened on Monday, December 3, 1849.
In no preceding Senate had been seen more brilliant groups of statesmen from both South and North.
Among the distinguished senators then, or soon subsequently to be, famous, were Davis, Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Benton, Corwin, Cass, Fillmore, Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas, Seward, Chase, Houston, Badger, of North Carolina; Butler, of South Carolina; Hamlin, Hunter, with society, except when our friends were invited to visit us. It was a period of his life that he remembered with just pride, and after a generation had passed he thus wrote of this Congress:
The first session of the Thirty — first Congress (1849-50) was a memorable one.
The recent acquisition from Mexico of New Mexico and California, required legislation from Congress.
In the Senate, the bills reported by the Committee on Territories were referred to a select committee of which Mr. Clay