IN RE THAT AGGRESSIVE SLAVOCRACY - 1921 - From most of the historical works covering the ante-bellum period one gains the impression that the dominant faotor, controlling the course of events, is found in a powerful, united, well-organized, aggressive slavocracy. Some of the more prominent details of the picture are as follows Shortly after the war of 1812 this. aggressive slave power began to sense its strength and future possibilities. As its designs were unfolded and became generally known, the first successful effort to ...
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IN RE THAT AGGRESSIVE SLAVOCRACY - 1921 - From most of the historical works covering the ante-bellum period one gains the impression that the dominant faotor, controlling the course of events, is found in a powerful, united, well-organized, aggressive slavocracy. Some of the more prominent details of the picture are as follows Shortly after the war of 1812 this. aggressive slave power began to sense its strength and future possibilities. As its designs were unfolded and became generally known, the first successful effort to check its growing power came in 1820 with the 3iissouri compromise. This proved but a temporary setback, however, for the south then looked toward Texas, with the result that in 1836 Texas was asking for admission as a slave state. In the meantime, the south had forced upon the union an acceptance of its tariff views in 1833. Though the antislavery forces now began to mobilize for a general crusade against the aggressions of the slaveholders and did succeed in delaying Texan annexation for a decade, that aggressive southern group ultimately had its way and added another slave state. Not content with the annexation of this Texan domain, from which five slave states might ultimately be made, the south pushed the country into the war with Riexico to gain still more territory for the expansion of its institution and more votes in congress to insure its domination. At the same time this selfish section, willing to promote only its own interests, managed affairs so that our just claim to much of the Oregon territory was forfeited, simply because if it had been pressed the result would have been the addition of more free states. When the TVilmot proviso was offered as astop to the program of southern aggression, the south succeeded in defeating it and secured the lions share in the compromise settlement of 1850. The next and most unpardonable work of this aggressive slavocracy was the Kan l This paper was given in part as the presidential address at the fourteenth annual meeting of the Mississippi valley historical association at Madison, Wisconsin, on April 14, 1921. 14 Chauncey S. Bozccher M. V. H. R. sas-Nebraska bill of 1854, with the repeal of the compromise of 1820, which had been planned for a decade. This was soon followed by the Dred Scott decision, designed to make slavery in all the territories absolutely secure. The next step was to be, through another such decision, a forced legalization of slavery in all of the then free states. Through it all the oligarchy of slaveholders in the south had become drunk with power and their hopes and ambitions knew no bounds. Controlling the situation as the planters did in the south, including the border states, and united on all serious questions of policy where the peculiar institution was involved, in spite of the appearance of party division on smaller matters, they would be able to control the policy of the country for a compact minority, with the advantages of great wealth and leisure to devote to public affairs, could govern in any country. With the successes enumerated above to their credit, and their control of the presidency, which was almost continuous beginning with 1844, and control of the house, the senate, and the supreme court either established or within reach, they developed imperialistic plans to bring Cuba, hIexico, and Central America under their system of control...
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Good+ with no dust jacket; Pages yellowing, light waterstain along spine. Reprinted from the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1-2, 1921.; 8vo; 79 pages.
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