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France and Spain, Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington, Other enactments With guerrillas harassing his line of communications back to Veracruz Scott decided not to weaken his army to defend Puebla but leaving only a garrison at Puebla to protect the sick and injured recovering there advanced on Mexico City on August 7 with his remaining force the capital was laid open in a series of battles around the right flank of the city defenses the Battle of Contreras and Battle of Churubusco After Churubusco fighting halted for an armistice and peace negotiations which broke down on September 6 1847 With the subsequent battles of Molino del Rey and of Chapultepec and the storming of the city gates the capital was occupied Scott became military governor of occupied Mexico City His victories in this campaign made him an American national hero. In his Federalist No 43 published January 23 1788 James Madison argued that the new federal government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance and safety. Five years earlier a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia Known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. . .

. Many historians argue that the Compromise played a major role in postponing the American Civil War for a decade while the Northwest was growing more wealthy and more populous and was being brought into closer relations with the Northeast. During that decade the Whig Party had completely broken down to be replaced with the new Republican Party dominant in the North and the Democrats in the South. .