Southern Unity Goes Up in Smoke

The Nashville Convention of 1850 was supposed to undermine the two-party system in the South, achieving John C. Calhoun's long-sought goal of unifying the section in the face of increasing northern hostility to slavery and disappointment at President Zachary Taylor's perceived betrayal. Instead, the convention itself was undermined by that very system and by Henry Clay's proposed Compromise of 1850, and secessionists Robert Barnwell Rhett and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker realized the rest of the South wasn't ready for their dream of a southern confederacy.

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