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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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other sub-jects of strenuous interest occupied the attention of the people. The slav-ery question, which had so seriously disturbed the country during Taylorsand Fillmores administrations, was felt to be the most menacing thing thatthe future held in store for us, and throughout the land there was an eagerdesire to set it forever at rest if that might be. A new party had arisenwhose purpose was agitation, and whose cardinal doctrine was that of ac-tive opposition to the extension of slavery; and although this new partysstrength was still comparatively insignificant, its existence aroused thepeople to a sense of danger and increased their eagerness to put the wholesubject out of politics by the emphatic declaration of their will that theCompromise measures of 1850 should be deemed a final settlement of thatquestion. In adopting their platforms, the two parties pronounced in favor of thatcourse with equal emphasis. But the Democratic declaration of intention OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS 95
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