Can't wait to see who (BroJoe??) attempts to refute any number of indicting revelations. FOR INSTANCE:
BroJoe:
"But of course, the Republican party represented no economic threat against slavery, since their platform merely called for Western territories to vote on whether to admit slavery or not."
Rustbucket:
"No threat? On November 26, 1859, The New York Herald reprinted the names of the 68 endorsers of Helper’s book along with other supporters including the governor of New York and Thurlow Weed and a list of contributors to the publication and distribution of 100,000 copies of an abridgement of Helper’s book. Subheadings of the Herald article include “Incitement to Treason and Civil War” and “The South to be Throttled and the Negroes Freed.”
"Here is a [Link] to that paper which contained the following extracts from Helper’s book in the article...."
Rustbucket:
Madison defined it as “public happiness” or “dissatisfaction” with the government. We didn’t have a king in 1860-61 and a long list of grevances against the king. I dare say that Madison, Jay, and Hamilton would laugh at what you consider “necessary” to mean.
The South faced a sectional president, possible serious threats from Republicans over their slave based economy, and likely increased sectional aggrandizement under Lincoln and the Republicans. First thing right off the bat after a number of states had already seceded, the Republicans passed the Morrill tariff that was going to harm the South. That was sectional aggrandizement. That protective tariff was in their platform. Lincoln was for it. It wasn’t any secret.
HEAR HEAR!
The deeper real CW history is unearthed, the smaller and more corrupt and reptilian Lincoln and the Northern state reps get.
At this juncture the US wasn't a "Representative Republic," it was about to become a banana republic as the North plotted premeditated tyranny and war.
Hinton Rowan Helper was a white Southern critic of slavery who addressed his book to “To the non-slaveholding whites of the South generally, whether at home or abroad.” That his book was taken as a threat to the South and circulating it — or even possessing a copy — was a crime was a symptom of the madness of the day. In a saner world, the idea that society and the economy would benefit from abolishing slavery wouldn’t have been controversial. If even wondering whether the South would be better off without slavery could get a questioner imprisoned or killed, how close could emancipation really be?