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Who were the politicians involved in the Compromise of 1850?

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The possibility of the disintegration of the Union was deprecated by many but was alarming to some, among them Henry Clay , who emerged from retirement to enter the Senate again. President Taylor was among those who felt that the Union was not threatened; he favored admission of California as a free state and encouragement of New Mexico to enter as a free state. These sentiments were voiced in Congress by William H. Seward . John C. Calhoun and other Southerners, particularly Jefferson Davis , maintained that the South should be given guarantees of equal position in the territories, of the execution of fugitive slave laws, and of protection against the abolitionists.

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