... but a smokescreen thrown up by disgruntled elitists looking to regain the initiative from the real people's cause. Through the 1830s and 1840s, the mainstream Jacksonian leadership, correctly confident that their views matched those of the white majority, fought to keep the United States a democracy free from the slavery question "condemning abolitionists as fomenters of rebellion, curtailing abolitionist mail campaigns, enforcing ... on abolitionist petitions, while fending off the more extremist proslavery southerners. In all of this fighting, however, the Jacksonians also began to ru...

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