CONTENTS

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Preface    Acknowledgments

ONE A Redeeming Spirit Is Busily Engaged

TWO Negro Suffrage Is Antislavery Work

THREE This Movement Is More Radical Than the Leaders Themselves Dare Avow

FOUR A Party Separate and Distinct

FIVE The Principles of the Free Soil and Whig Parties Are Identical

SIX We Must Unite or Be Enslaved

SEVEN This Thing Called Know Nothingism

EIGHT Freedom and Liberty First, and the Union Afterwards

NINE The Dangerous Doctrine of Nullification

TEN A Little Matter of Justice

ELEVEN It Looks Like Civil War Is Inevitable

TWELVE The End of the Antislavery Question Has Arrived

Appendix: Wisconsin Election Tables

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE    TABLES

Notes    Bibliography    Index