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Entitled: "A full view of the US Senate chamber in session. At lower right, Daniel Webster stands and raises his right hand in addressing the Senate, March 7, 1850. Each member of 1850 is carefully depicted, including Stephen Douglas (right of Webster), John C. Calhoun, Vice President Millard Fillmore (presiding at center), Secretary of the Senate Asbury Dickens (below Fillmore), and Jefferson Davis. The visitors' galleries above are full of men and women. The coffered, domed ceiling arches over a portrait of George Washington hung above the eagle and shield above the Vice President." The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-48). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision. The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions.
