RE IMMIGRATION HISTORY DK POST

"...For the new party, the spread of slavery, rather than the growth of immigration, was the main threat to free laborers in the North...." DK

The Republican Party was certainly founded on white Northern racism, and the issue of slavery alone.

 

Certainly Northern white racist fear mongering was what swept Lincoln into office and into the Civil War.

 

But this was always merely false political fear mongering, and everyone except the electorate, especially Lincoln, well knew it.

 

Douglas pointed it out clearly in the debates, but the Northern whites still ended up eventually electing Lincoln. 

 

Lincoln stood on the platform of ridding Northern white racists of negroes forever. That was what elected him. Why? Because the likes of Douglas could not promise to do so under our system.

 

Yet, there was no more chance, by the 1850s,  for slavery to have been accepted as a national institution, and imported into the North than a snowball had of surviving in Hell.

Here is DK, on Tocqueville, on Northern white racism prior to the time of the Civil War by decades:

DK ON TOCQUEVILLE NORTHERN WHITE RACISM CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR

' "...race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in states where slavery was never known."(AT)  Even in the northern states where black citizens theoretically enjoyed equal rights, he reported, they were too afraid to assert them.  Those states that had abolished slavery had done so not to help the black man, but to help the white, both by leaving free labor without the competition of slaves and by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon the whites.' DK, 2016 

I will just add a footnote here, to this prior post passage reprinted above.

Those Northern states that had abolished slavery had done so not only not to help the black man, and to help the white, and not only by leaving free white labor without slave competition, and not only by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon whites, but, much more importantly, they did not want negroes around, free or slave, in the North or anywhere else in America.

That is really what Tocqueville had meant in 1830, in the passage DK quoted.

The Northern cause in the Civil War was supposed, according to the electorate, to result in the transportation, not the immediate, or the gradual, assimilation of negroes, slave or free.

They got screwed in every way. The only good, temporary, thing, for them, was that the Radical Republican Party kept the freed negroes in puppet control of only the South, not the North.