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To: DiogenesLamp
It is too be regretted that there were too many former Whigs in the Republican Party. It is too be more regretted that the z
Democrats abonded Jacksonianism in favor of being tools of the Slave Power. A quote about Franklin Pierce: He has so many Whigs about him, that true Democrats are crowded out.” The Civil War was about the West. Their is is a straight line from Jackson to the Free Soil Movement
45 posted on 09/30/2024 2:04:55 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: cowboyusa
The Civil War was about the West.

In propaganda. In reality it was literally impossible to make profits off of slaves in the West.

When it was tacitly legal, nobody bothered taking slaves out to the West. There just wasn't any money in it.

47 posted on 09/30/2024 2:09:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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