Those who’ve read over 1840s and 1850s politics in DC, are very aware of the brewing crisis.
You write, “Those who’ve read over 1840s and 1850s politics in DC, are very aware of the brewing crisis.”
The Democrats in that period were stirring the pot of national deconstructions, just as they are doing so today. It is both a curiosity and a tragedy that Blacks were as subject to the Democrats in 1850 (as slaves) as they are today (freed, but still slaves).