GDG- Secession

[Margaret D. Blough]

I place the origin or, at the very least the precursor, to the War Democrats at two earlier points, (1) the attempt to have Kansas brought into the Union as a slave state under the blatantly fraudulent Lecompton Constitution; this is where the Southern Democrats permanently alienated Stephen Douglas and other previously sympathetic and supportive Northern Democrats; and (2) the slave state attempts to force the Democratic Presidential Convention in Charleston, S.C. (talk about a blatantly disastrous choice of locations) to include pro-slavery planks in the party platform, including a slave code for the territories which brought about open schism in the Democratic Party.

Regards,

Margaret

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> I have often thought that among the mistakes the secessionists made was their 
> POing the Northern Democracy with their insistence on slave codes in the 
> territories, to say nothing of the repeal of the Missouri compromise line in the 
> Kansas-Nebraska Act. People like John Logan, Dan Sickles, Ben Butler, and Edwin 
> Stanton had supported the Southerners and saw that the compromises seemed to go 
> all one way. When the slave states set up the Republican victory in 1860 and 
> then attacked Fort Sumter, the War Democrats were born and carried tremendous 
> numbers of Northerners with them. 
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> Bob 
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