... exact opposite of what their southern counterparts thought. These northerners, such as William Lloyd Garrison, thought the south was formulating a "Slave Power" conspiracy. "Now the ultimate goal of the Slave Power plot - was the nationalization of slavery. The first step in the conspiracy was to suppress all abolitionist dissent. The second was to repeal the Missouri Compromise and extend slavery into the territories. The next ... was to expand it into Free states, into New York, New England, Pennsylvania, etc. until the entire North was part of the Slave Power." (153) As one could ima...

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... the sectionalizing effects of the slavery issue while also forgoing to operate as a national political party. Just as the nation the Whigs could not sustain itself while being half slave owning and the other half free. Simultaneously the Democratic Party was weakening through the means of slavery. An overlapping ideal in Foner's book, essentially says that slavery is a ... that this institution and way of life would slowly suffocate and cease to exist. Republicans did not associate with the abolitionist because Republicans recognized the legitimacy of the fugitive slave clause of the Con...

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