War with Mexico was only shortly in the rearview, having triggered the 1850 crisis. There was talk of more wars to the south to expand slave territory further. Opponents of slavery's expansion were weary of all the concessions.
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That swam against a global tide in which bondage was retreating. And in America, the opponents of slavery would finally politically organize between 1852 & 1856 to form the Republican Party & start turning the tables. Douglass spoke at the darkness before the dawn.
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And as several others have noted, the rallying cry of the new Republican Party was that the classical liberal principles of the Founding, Declaration & Constitution were incompatible with slavery.
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Those principles still matter today, & their preservation & expansion are the legacy of men like Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln. May we honor them & reject the siren song of those who would discard them behind quotations that misunderstand them.
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Wow, how long have u lived in Illinois Google "Abraham Lincoln" for starters
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It's hard to get from his speech that he hated the US. He hated slavery of course, but he wanted to see the US improve itself by getting rid of it.
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That year also saw the election of F. Pierce, a Dem from Maine who worked with S. Douglas (D-IL) to pass the KS-NE Act of 1854. That act overturned the MO Comp. of 1820 by allowing vote on expanding slavery in Kansas, setting off Bleeding KS. Worst law in history of the U.S.
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