| Franklin Repository, "The Work of the Campaign," August 1, 1860 Summary
In this New York Independent article reprinted in the Repository, slavery was cast as an immoral system because of its effects
on blacks (rather than on working whites, as is usually the case in the Repository). The editors used an outside newspaper
to express the view of slavery as "an injustice and upheld by a wrong."
EXCERPT:
"The criminality of slavery is the only ground upon which it can be effectively opposed."
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 = E090
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