Territory acquired from 42° to Gila River; from Rio Grande to the Pacific. Effort to make the territory slave soil. 1848. _The Whigs._ No platform. Elect Taylor and Fillmore. 1848. _The Democrats._ Nothing in platform as to slavery in new territory. Defeated, 1848. Complaints of the South against the North: Popular sovereignty 1. Fugitive slaves. 2. Slavery in District of Columbia. 3. Territory acquired from Mexico to be open to slavery. Discovery of gold in California, 1848. Rush to California. The three routes. Free state of California, 1849. Effort to keep the territory free. The Wilmot Proviso, 1846, 1847. The Free-soil party, 1848. Demands of the party. Defeated in 1848. Demand-- 1. California a free state. 2. No slavery in District of Columbia. 3. No more slave states. No more slave territories. Whigs attempt a compromise. COMPROMISE OF 1850. 1. California a free state. 2. Popular sovereignty in territory acquired from Mexico. 3. No slave trade in District of Columbia. 4. Texas takes present boundaries. 5. Two new territories, Utah and New Mexico. 6. New fugitive-slave law. CHAPTER XXV THE TERRITORIES BECOME SLAVE SOIL %384. Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President.%--Although the struggle with slavery was thus growing more and more serious, the two great parties pretended to consider the question as finally settled. In 1852 the Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce and William E. King, and declared in their platform that they would "abide by and adhere to" the Compromise of 1850, and would "resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question." The Whigs nominated General Winfield Scott, and declared that they approved the fugitive-slave law, and accepted the compromise measures of 1850 as "a settlement in principle" of the slavery question, and would do all they could to prevent any further discussion of it. [Illustration: Franklin Pierce] So far as the Whigs were concerned, the question was settled; for the Northern people, angry at their acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the fugitive-slave law, refused to vote for Scott, and Pierce was elected.[1] [Footnote 1: Pierce carried every state except Massachusetts, Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky.] The Free-soilers had nominated John P. Hale and George W. Julian.