My Dearest Friend, I fear the worse for my young and still developing country. Our goal Manifest Destiny has almost been met but with the spread of Americans across the continent seems to come the spread of the appalling act of slavery. These damn southerners have no clue to how to make an honest living. They force their slaves out into the field while they sit there and drink tea. At the end of the day, they go to count their cotton and then reap the rewards. Meanwhile, the slaves live in squalor. Well, my friend, I can no longer stand for this. If these southerners wanted to continue to live off the free labor of slaves, then they can keep it where it is. I will not stand for slavery to spread into the new territories and curse this nation
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He was able to unite us free soilers, know-nothings, and liberty party supporters in order to get a critical advantage above the south. The democrats had been divided by Douglas which weakened the party. When Douglas refused to take back the Freeport Doctrine southern fire eaters got up and left the democratic convention. This caused the part to break into thirds. One group chose to support Douglas, another group chose to support Breckenridge, and a third party the Constitutional party supported Bell. These fractions are what allowed Lincoln to win the presidency. He was able to unite the north and west on his idea that, “That whatever their grievances northern workers’ hopes and aspirations required defending the liberties they had already won against the threat of ‘slave power’” (Levine …show more content…
The south may have claimed that they were leaving because they felt like they were being enslaved by the north but fairy tale that the slaves were happy came to an end. Books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought the atrocities of slavery to the world stage. If the slaves were being treated so well then tell my good friend why all of the white people were afraid of a slave rebellion in the night killing them all? The south chose to leave the union in order to not only protect themselves from a slave revolt but to also protect white supremacy and to impede any attempts at mongrelizing. Places like Virginia where slaves did not outnumber whites did not rush so quickly to secession. They believed that some compromise could eventually be reached and that the southern states would give up their revolt and rejoin the union peacefully (Dew
He was able to unite us free soilers, know-nothings, and liberty party supporters in order to get a critical advantage above the south. The democrats had been divided by Douglas which weakened the party. When Douglas refused to take back the Freeport Doctrine southern fire eaters got up and left the democratic convention. This caused the part to break into thirds. One group chose to support Douglas, another group chose to support Breckenridge, and a third party the Constitutional party supported Bell. These fractions are what allowed Lincoln to win the presidency. He was able to unite the north and west on his idea that, “That whatever their grievances northern workers’ hopes and aspirations required defending the liberties they had already won against the threat of ‘slave power’” (Levine …show more content…
The south may have claimed that they were leaving because they felt like they were being enslaved by the north but fairy tale that the slaves were happy came to an end. Books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought the atrocities of slavery to the world stage. If the slaves were being treated so well then tell my good friend why all of the white people were afraid of a slave rebellion in the night killing them all? The south chose to leave the union in order to not only protect themselves from a slave revolt but to also protect white supremacy and to impede any attempts at mongrelizing. Places like Virginia where slaves did not outnumber whites did not rush so quickly to secession. They believed that some compromise could eventually be reached and that the southern states would give up their revolt and rejoin the union peacefully (Dew