During this session, Johnson also supported the pro-slavery Crittenden Compromise.

* Crittenden Compromise

Efforts at compromise, including the " Corwin Amendment " and the " Crittenden Compromise ", failed.

* John J. Crittenden 1805 — Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, U. S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky, U. S. Attorney General under Presidents William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore, proposed the Crittenden Compromise to keep the Union intact.

Vallandigham supported the Crittenden Compromise and proposed on February 20, 1861 that the Senate and the electoral college be divided into four sections, each with a veto.

It should not be confused with the " Crittenden Compromise ," a series of unsuccessful proposals debated after slave states began seceding from the Union in an attempt to prevent the South from leaving the Union.

Abraham Lincoln's rejection of the Crittenden Compromise, the failure to secure the ratification of the Corwin amendment in 1861, and the inability of the Washington Peace Conference of 1861 to provide an effective alternative to Crittenden and Corwin came together to prevent a compromise that is still debated by Civil War historians.

In December 1860, he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but Congress did not approve them.

Fillmore, an opponent of slavery, requested an opinion from Crittenden on the constitutionality of the fugitive slave law, one of the bills involved in the Compromise of 1850.

An opponent of the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854, Crittenden also opposed repealing the Missouri Compromise unless the North agreed to substitute popular sovereignty for the exclusion of slavery north of the 36 ° 30 ' line.

To that end, he proposed the Crittenden Compromise — a package of six constitutional amendments and four congressional resolutions — in December 1860.

* John J. Crittenden ( 1786 – 1863 ), US Senator, Attorney General of the United States and author of the Crittenden Compromise

In February 1861, Morrill attended the Peace Conference of 1861 and opposed John J. Crittenden's compromise arguments, similar to those made in the Crittenden Compromise.

He failed in his attempt to re-work and re-introduce the Crittenden Compromise earlier proposed in Congress by fellow Kentuckian John J. Crittenden.

The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal introduced by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden on December 18, 1860.

However, not all opposition to the Crittenden Compromise also opposed further territorial expansion of the United States.

# Redirect Crittenden Compromise

* December 18, 1860: Crittenden Compromise proposed

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

In 1861, when U. S. Senator John J. Crittenden proposed that the 36 ° 30 ' parallel north be declared as a line of demarcation between free and slave territories, some Republicans denounced such an arrangement, saying that it " would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and State owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego.

They would unite with the 6th Indiana under Col. Thomas T. Crittenden and the 14th Ohio under Col. Steedman.

Taylor was elected, but Crittenden refused a post in his cabinet, fearing he would be charged with making a " corrupt bargain ", as Clay had been in 1825.

Crittenden and Rowan proposed either that the " Walker Line " remain the boundary from the Cumberland Mountains to the Tennessee River and Tennessee would compensate for the error west of the Tennessee River, or that the boundary be reset at 36 degrees, 30 minutes throughout.

Though his nomination was all but certain, Crittenden declined the opportunity, fearing that his association with Clay, who was losing popularity in the state, would cost his party the election.

Secretly, the party wished to nominate Henry Clay, giving him a springboard from which to launch another presidential campaign, but it was unknown whether he would be able to secure enough votes for confirmation ; it was decided that Crittenden would be the nominee, and if the voting favored the Whigs by a large enough margin, Crittenden would withdraw and allow them to confirm Clay instead.

This was the last time Clay would be nominated for president, and many Whigs believed that, following Clay's defeat, Crittenden was the new leader of their party.

Clay hoped Crittenden would again support him, but Crittenden concluded that Clay was no longer a viable candidate and threw his support behind Kentuckian Zachary Taylor.

Letcher wrote to Crittenden that a Whig split and Democratic victory in the gubernatorial election would have an injurious effect on Whig hopes of carrying Kentucky in the 1848 presidential election ; another former Whig governor, Thomas Metcalfe, concurred.

Appeals came in from both Whig and Democratic leaders across the country urging him to serve in the cabinet ; Taylor was inexperienced, and many felt that without Crittenden to guide him, his administration would fail.

Most Whigs opposed the calling of a constitutional convention because it would necessarily involve reapportionment of the state's legislative districts and threaten Whig dominance in the General Assembly ; nevertheless, Crittenden belatedly supported the call for a convention during his 1848 gubernatorial campaign.

Another compromise was proposed whereby Clay, his health failing, would resign his Senate seat, creating two Senate vacancies and allowing both Dixon and Crittenden to be elected, but Clay refused to cooperate.

Because the prosecution sought the death penalty, Crittenden asserted that if the jury rendered an erroneous conviction, they would have no peace of mind knowing they had sentenced an innocent man to hang.

Both Crittenden and Albert Sidney Johnston ordered Zollicoffer to relocate south of the river, but he could not comply — he had insufficient boats to cross the unfordable river quickly and was afraid his brigade would be caught by the enemy halfway across.

In the Senate, former Kentucky Whig John J. Crittenden, elected as a Unionist candidate, submitted six proposed constitutional amendments that he hoped would address all the outstanding issues.

The Whig party nominated Senator John J. Crittenden, and the race was complicated by former Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson's announcement that he would run as an independent Democratic candidate.

Seven men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms — John J. Crittenden, Beriah Magoffin, John W. Stevenson, Augustus O. Stanley, Happy Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Wendell H. Ford.

Theorists including Don Beck, Lawrence Chickering, Jack Crittenden, David Sprecher, and Ken Wilber have applied concepts such as the AQAL methodology of Integral Theory to issues in political philosophy and applications in government.

Clay made a tour of the South just before the Whig nominating convention and concluded that the sentiment in favor of annexation in that part of the country was not as strong as had been assumed in Washington, D. C. Acting on this belief, and against Crittenden's advice, Clay sent a letter opposing annexation to Crittenden, asking him to have it published in the National Intelligencer.

Crittenden insisted that the terms of peace should not include the acquisition of territory to which the United States did not have a " just claim ", but the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo submitted to Congress in 1848 called for Mexico to give up not only its claims to Texas, but also to New Mexico, California, and all the territory in between.

George B. Kinkead desired to have the Kentucky General Assembly nominate Crittenden for president in 1847.

Fulbright then defeated the Republican nominee, Charles T. Bernard, a farmer and businessman from Earle in Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas, who is believed to have drawn considerable support from Johnson's former primary voters.

The Crittenden resolutions have been voted down again and again.

Crittenden later brought the issue to the floor of the Senate as a proposal to have his compromise made subject to a national referendum, but the Senate rejected it on January 16 by a vote of 25-23.