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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 2: (search)
orth and South, as a wise and judicious arrangement. So far had it enlisted the general approval, that in June, 1852, the National Conventions of both the Democratic and Whig parties bestowed upon it their approbation, and expressed their determination to maintain it. They both resolved, to employ the language of the Democratic platform, that they would resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the slavery agitation, under whatever shape or color the attempt maybe made. Greeley's Political Text Book, 1860, p. 20. On this subject the Whig platform is specific and emphatic. Its eighth and last resolution is as follows: Ibid. p. 19. That the series of Acts of the thirty-second Congress, the Act known as the Fugitive Slave Law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace; and, so far as they are concerned, we will maintai
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 3: (search)
's Impending Crisis soon afterwards appeared, a book well calculated to alarm the southern people. This was ushered into the world by the following warm commendation from Mr. Seward himself: Fowler's Sectional Controversy, p. 205. I have read the Impending crisis of the South with great attention. It seems to me a work of great merit, rich yet accurate in statistical information, and logical in analysis. On the 9th of March, 1859, a Republican committee in New York, consisting of Horace Greeley, Thurlow Weed, and others, issued a circular warmly commending the book, and proposing to publish one hundred thousand copies of a compendium of it at a cheap rate for gratuitous circulation. In order to raise subscriptions for the purpose, they obtained the recommendation of this plan by sixty-eight Republican members of Congress, with Schuyler Colfax at their head. It is in the following terms: Con. Globe, 1859‘60, p. 16. We the undersigned, members of the House of Representative