CHAPTER XI

The Final Crisis, 1850–1870 8 80. The Movement against the Slave-Trade Laws 168 81. Commercial Conventions of 1855–1856 169 82. Commercial Conventions of 1857–1858 170 83. Commercial Convention of 1859 172 84. Public Opinion in the South 173 85. The Question in Congress 174 86. Southern Policy in 1860 176 87. Increase of the Slave-Trade from 1850 to 1860 178 88. Notorious Infractions of the Laws 179 89. Apathy of the Federal Government 182 90. Attitude of the Southern Confederacy 187 91. Attitude of the United States 190