FRUITLESS EFFORTS AT ANNEXATION.
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the Annexation Fever.-Attacks on
Mexico. The Attitude of Pierce.-The Gadsden Treaty.-Greytown.
-Cuba.-England and the Cuban Question.-The Annexation Ques-
tion more actively discussed.-Marshall's Resolution.-Pierre Soule's
and Marcy's Instructions.-The Black Warrior Episode.-The Message
of the 15th of March.-The Instructions of the 3rd of April.-The Pro-
ject of Clingman and Perkins.-Slidell's Resolution of May 1st.-
The "Africanization" Alarm and Clayton's Criticism of it.-The
Demands of Mallary and the Richmond Enquirer.-Quitman at the
Head of the Filibusters.-Pierce's Attitude.-Soulé Instructed to
Confer with Buchanan and Mason on the Purchase of Cuba.-The
Ostend Conference.-Soulé's Despatch of the 20th of October.-Marcy
effects the rejection of the Ostend Manifesto.-The Annual Message
of the 4th of December, 1854, and the Ostend Manifesto in the House
of Representatives.-The Project of Annexation not Surrendered.
THE ELECTIONS OF 1854 AND THE KNOW NOTHINGS..
Silence of the Annual Message of December 4, 1854, on the Kansas
and the Slavery Questions.-The Situation.-Seward and His Speech
of the 17th of February, 1854.-Development of the Slavocratic Spirit.
-The Feeling in the South.-The Radicals raise the question of the
Resumption of the African Slave Trade.-The Feeling in the North.-
The Anthony Burns Case.-Increased Activity of the Underground
Railroad.—The Supreme Court of Wisconsin Declares the Fugitive
Slave Law Unconstitutional.-The Liberty Laws. -A. H. Reeder,
Governor of Kansas.-The Slavocrats of Missouri Announce their