Excerpt from Democrat and Republican: Slavery and Freedom; Past and Present Crises Was thoroughly in earnest from the beginning of its organization in 1854. It then fully recognized and realized the depth of the wrongs the citizens of the North had sustained from those of the South through the surreptitious extension of African slavery, as well as the imminent danger from the same source, then menacing the Union it had always sustained and loved so well. Its honest and industrious citizens at last became tired of the unjustifiable and continuous slanders and malicious taunts of the slave-dealers of the South. Their constant and venomed threats to dissolve the Union or carry slavery by force of arms into the North-western free territory was irritating and galling in the extreme to the people of the North, and more so from the additional fact that that region was excluded from slavery by the original and sacred ordinance of 1787, and the Missouri compromise of 1820. They remembered that through their own negligence and credulity, and the volunteered aid of the Democracy of the North, one of those compacts had been ingeniously violated and set aside by the South, at least so far as to permit one more slave State within its bounds to be added to the Union. This only seemed to gratify but not satisfy the inordinate selfish ambition of the South, though easier to open a way for more, and finally to occupy the whole of the Pacific coast for their illegal and unrighteous purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Opponents at first, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. James Oakes brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race and equality in Civil War America.

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