| Franklin Repository, "How Slaves Drive Out Free Labor," August 1, 1860 Summary
The Republican editors continued to argue that slavery was displacing white labor and moving into new climates and agricultural
sectors.
EXCERPT:
"There are now in Missouri at least fifty thousand men who cannot get full employment for their energies and enterprise, owing
to the depression of the past two years, and there are now in Missouri more than one hundred thousand slaves, occuping [sic]
and filling the most lucrative agricultural and mechanical positions . . . It is the demand of the Republican party that slave
labor shall make room for free white labor, and take itself away."
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 = E092
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