The Compromise of 1850 cultivated further tensions between the North and South as it prevented additional provincial expansion of slavery. However, it did not address the structural discrepancy that divided the United States (“Trigger Events of the Civil War”). Part of the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act, which stated “that it shall be the duty of all marshals… to obey and execute all warrants” and if any “refuse to receive such warrant…he shall be fined in the sum of one thousand dollars..” (“Fugitive Slave Act”). This act forced northern non-slave owners to participate in the South’s activities and many industrial Northern colonists had no interest or use for getting involved in anything to do with slavery. Furthermore, Senator Charles Tillinghast James argued in his speech that “the slavery of the South, if an unpardonable sin, is not to be answered and atoned by the people of the North. They have nothing to do with it” (“Senator Charles Tillinghast James, Speech on the Fugitive Slave Act, August 26, 1852”). The northerners felt as if they were carrying the burden of the rural South’s slave-centric society as many northerners did not rely on the slave system and thought that this punishment was unjust thus establishing
The Compromise of 1850 cultivated further tensions between the North and South as it prevented additional provincial expansion of slavery. However, it did not address the structural discrepancy that divided the United States (“Trigger Events of the Civil War”). Part of the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act, which stated “that it shall be the duty of all marshals… to obey and execute all warrants” and if any “refuse to receive such warrant…he shall be fined in the sum of one thousand dollars..” (“Fugitive Slave Act”). This act forced northern non-slave owners to participate in the South’s activities and many industrial Northern colonists had no interest or use for getting involved in anything to do with slavery. Furthermore, Senator Charles Tillinghast James argued in his speech that “the slavery of the South, if an unpardonable sin, is not to be answered and atoned by the people of the North. They have nothing to do with it” (“Senator Charles Tillinghast James, Speech on the Fugitive Slave Act, August 26, 1852”). The northerners felt as if they were carrying the burden of the rural South’s slave-centric society as many northerners did not rely on the slave system and thought that this punishment was unjust thus establishing