Slavery in National Politics

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Slavery in National Politics

• 1850-1856

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Thomas Prentice Kettell

• Southern Wealth and Northern Profits (1856)
• North dependent on southern products but accrued
  most of the profits.
• Well received in the south but not in North,
  where the view was that slavery gave the south
  too much power in national politics.

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The Armistice made things worse

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Personal Liberty Laws
• Uncle Toms Cabin

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Franklin Pierce Administration

• 1852 Election (Dark horse democrat got nomination
  over better known rivals 49 ballots and
  triumphed over better know Whig, Winfield Scott)
  
• Rewarded Southern Democrats with many of the key
  political appointments, weakening Democrats in
  the North

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1852 Election
Dem 50.8 Whig 43.9 Free Soil4.9
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Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869
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Major Happenings

• Ostend Manifesto
• Filibustering (Narciso Lopez)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Stephen A. Douglas
• F Street Mess
• Appeal of the Independent Democrats
• Emergence of Republican Party
• Troubled implementation (Border Ruffians, New
  England Immigrant Aid Society)
• Competing Territorial legislatures
• Wakarusa War

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More Kansas Violence

• Sack of Lawrence, May 21, 1856
• Pottawatamie Creek Massacre, May 24, 1856
• The Crime Against Kansas,
• May 19-20, 1856
• Great boon to the Republican
• Party in the North (William E.
• Gienapp)

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1856 Election

• Nativism and the American Party
• Rise of the Republican Party
• Buchanan and the Democracy

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Political Party Presidential Nominee Electoral
Pop Popular Democratic James Buchanan
174 45.3 1,836,072
Republican John C. Fremont 114
33.1 1,342,345 Whig-American
Millard Fillmore 8 21.6
873,053