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Page viii
... slavery issue , coming at a time when they had succumbed to the nationalizing influence of party , forced them to act cautiously in the face of the anti - slavery inclinations of their northern co - partisans . A steady conservatism ...
... slavery issue , coming at a time when they had succumbed to the nationalizing influence of party , forced them to act cautiously in the face of the anti - slavery inclinations of their northern co - partisans . A steady conservatism ...
Page 2
... slavery agitation which threatened to bring the party to a state of disorganization similar to that which \ characterized the first years of its existence . The his- tory of the Whig party in the South is thus divided into two periods ...
... slavery agitation which threatened to bring the party to a state of disorganization similar to that which \ characterized the first years of its existence . The his- tory of the Whig party in the South is thus divided into two periods ...
Page 47
... slavery , for after all his shift was a renewed appeal to the sectional interests of the South . In Calhoun's own state this step was made easy by a reconciliation between the two local parties at the time when he was reelected to the ...
... slavery , for after all his shift was a renewed appeal to the sectional interests of the South . In Calhoun's own state this step was made easy by a reconciliation between the two local parties at the time when he was reelected to the ...
Page 69
... slavery question became the paramount issue in politics , the Whigs had no hesitancy in asserting that their party included the largest slave- owners and that a large majority of the slaves in the South was the property of the Whigs ...
... slavery question became the paramount issue in politics , the Whigs had no hesitancy in asserting that their party included the largest slave- owners and that a large majority of the slaves in the South was the property of the Whigs ...
Page 73
... slavery itself . The Tuscaloosa Monitor of Sept. 8 , 1860 , declared that the local Democratic paper , the Flag of the Union , had in 1840 announced that the abolition of slavery would be the ultimate result of a triumphant democracy ...
... slavery itself . The Tuscaloosa Monitor of Sept. 8 , 1860 , declared that the local Democratic paper , the Flag of the Union , had in 1840 announced that the abolition of slavery would be the ultimate result of a triumphant democracy ...
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