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For anyone else a little fuzzy on their mid-1800s political history… the comparison is apt. History rhymes.
In 1848, the Whig Party split among "Conscience Whigs," who demanded federal action to end slavery, and "Cotton Whigs," who advocated compromise with slavery to maintain the Union. The Conscience Whigs – Charles Sumner among them – established a separate Free Soil Party that drew antislavery members from the Whig and Democratic parties, as well as from the abolitionist Liberty Party. Free Soilers ran in the 1848 and 1852 federal elections on the platform of "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men."
March 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM