Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the June of 1850 to

a. plan southern secession.
b. develop a series of compromise political proposals over slavery to preserve the Union.
c. propose a series of constitutional amendments to protect the legality of slavery.
d. denounce Daniel Webster as a traitor to the South.
e. condemn the political compromises over slavery being worked out in Congress.


e

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