The northern Democratic and Republican parties favored allowing the South to secede in peace.
At the risk of seeming a bit harsh, I think it a piece of simple humbuggery.
Do the names of the candidates, Douglas and Lincoln, count for anything?
In all my reading on this subject, I have never come across this claim, and I ask, most politely, if anyone here can support it. Do we have resolutions of state parties? Platforms? Legislative resolutions or acts? Anything but the fantasy world of Dr. D.?
A final note: there is a caution here for journalists not to trust ideological allies without a bit of fact checking.
Williams ought to be ashamed of himself for a sentence like this one!
Cheers,
Richard F.
My understanding is that the Republican party had as its foundation a platform of unconditional Union.
Walt