Anti-slavery tracts
During the summer of 1835, Northern abolitionists began sending anti-slavery tracts through the postal system into the South.[266] Pro-slavery Southerners demanded that the postal service ban distribution of the materials, which were deemed "incendiary," and some began to riot. Jackson wanted sectional peace, and desired to placate Southerners ahead of the 1836 election.[267] He fiercely disliked the abolitionists, whom he believed were, by instituting sectional jealousies, attempting to destroy the Union.[268] Jackson also did not want to condone open insurrection. He supported the solution of Postmaster General Amos Kendall, which gave Southern postmasters discretionary powers to either send or detain the anti-slavery tracts.[267] That December, Jackson called on Congress to prohibit the circulation through the South of "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.
But Lincoln's later Republican Party was a pure sectional racist anti negro anti slavery party.
They didn't want slavery, but they didn't want negroes even more!
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But Lincoln's later Republican Party was a pure sectional racist anti negro anti slavery party.
They didn't want slavery, but they didn't want negroes even more!
Terms search: Tocqueville
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