Franklin Repository, "Strike for Freedom," May 5, 1860 Summary
Republicans made clear that they planned to move the party into the South and to bring its opposition to slavery with it.
EXCERPT:
"The election of a Republican President would be the signal for the uprising of Republicanism in the South. The masses, who
have been so long down-trodden by the Slave Oligarchy, would arise in their might and emancipate themselves from a bondage
that is even worse than slavery of the body--the loss of their birth-right as American citizens."
Full-text web version of newspaper Points of Analysis to this Data:
"In the first half of 1860 Republican editors in Franklin's Repository and Transcript attacked slavery as a violation of nature
that stole from the workingman the fruits of his labor; they focused mainly on slavery's potential to undermine free labor."
Citation: Key = E183
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