Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... party . " We should not care much whether those thus united [ against the extension of slavery ] were designated ' Whig , ' ' Free Democrat , ' or something else ; though we think some simple name like ' Republican ' would more fitly ...
... party elected nine governors in 1855 and only deft manipulations by Weed prevented Daniel Ullmann , a former Silver Gray Whig , from being elected governor of New York . This is compared to the Republicans whose only state of importance ...
... Republican Party . In New York , after the Democrats defeated the Republicans in the 1857 state election , Horace ... Republican state conclave in New York in a number of editorials that he wrote . The Republicans and the Americans ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |