| Staunton Spectator, "Civil, Not Sectional War," January 24, 1860 Summary
The Whig position asserted that Northerners were divided among themselves about slavery and that any future conflict would
likely be among Northerners rather than sectional conflict between North and South.
EXCERPT:
"No one who knows anything of the northern people believes that they are united in the aggressive anti-slavery movement, or
that they even agree in their views of slavery in the abstract."
Full-text web version of newspaper  Points of Analysis to this Data:
 "Augusta's Whig Party emphasized that slavery was safer within the Union than without and that in the 1860 election slavery
had become needlessly politicized. The Augusta Whigs moved to develop a new party around Constitutional Unionism."
Citation: Key = E102
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