[Homer_J_Simpson]

Just a couple more days of Frederick Douglass and then we get a break until some 160-year-old event happens. Hopefully someone else has something about February 1856 to post.

Chapter 8 continued from January 1856 reply #137.

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Chapter 8 to be continued. "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)

[ifinnegan]

Just more examples of how the Democrats used to power of government, both federal and local, for their own evil wills.

It’s quite a Faustian bargain the Democrats have made.

They actually use atrocities and evils of the past that they caused and carried out to curry favor and power in the present, as of someone else did it and they are protecting today’s potential victims from what they, in fact, did.

[rdl6989]

I may be a little early, but the American Party, also known as the Know Nothing Party, nominated it’s first and only candidate for President on February 22, 1856 at it’s convention in Philadelphia. Former President Millard Fillmore was nominated for President and his running mate was Andrew J. Donelson. In the general election Fillmore only carried Maryland. Divisions within the party over slavery and the violence in Kansas doomed the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1856#American_.28Know-Nothing.29_Party_nomination

http://www2.hsp.org/exhibits/convention/1856_main.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)

That is the final excerpt to get up to date with Douglass. We will hear from him again but not for quite a while. I hope the posting of these chapters inspires a few people to buy the book for their own collections. It is well worth the price. Also, almost half the book involves the time after the Civil War, so we won't be covering it here.