mississippi passed a resolution calling on all the southern states to meet in convention in asheville tennessee with the first monday of june 1850 and they are setting up the machinery to take the south out of the union. think of how desperate they were. that is why we were really fortunate to have a man like henry clay in the house, in the senate actually, the speaker who had the vision and the determination and the love of this country to keep it together to try to work out a compromise. knowing that what you have to do is one for you and one for you and back-and-forth. it has got to be important to enough for both sides to say for me to get what i'd not need. the pork man was in bad shape and the mississippi resolution had been inspired with john calhoun of south carolina that said the north is constantly harassing us. they don't understand what the situation is. there for the seven states need to come together to decide on a course of action. and so the situation existed and henry clay for weeks weeks, it's not easy to find a solution. look, for example, with the relation between israel and