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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
ging with the national ___domain the points of contact between free and slave institutions, involving fresh conflicts and compromises—perpetual irritation of the national sore. Thomas Corwin correctly predicted that, in the event of a cession of territory by Mexico to the United States, the question of the further extension of slavery must arise in a form which would necessarily array the North and the South against each other, and ultimately lead to a dissolution of the Union (Letter of Sept. 23, 1847; Lib. 17: 169). It also surely effected the division of the North into two political camps, by the open, shameless and final alliance of the Democratic Party with the Slave Power, for the sake of an unchanging ascendancy in Lib. 15.42. national politics. For some time yet the Whig label would not necessarily connote a supporter of slavery; but with the Democratic label it was otherwise. From 1845 it meant nothing but complete subserviency to the mandates of the Southern oligarchy.