HIST 127 Lecture 27: November 29, 2016

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James buchanan won election of 1856 (democrat) 2/3 of electoral votes came from slave states. By 1856 - whig party virtually gone, replaced by anti-slavery republican party. Split openly about slavery question in 1840s. Buchanan tied to southern interests and friends and viciously anti-abolitionist, anti-republican, he couldn"t serve as a reliable barometer of what overall public opinion was. Missouri slave who seeked freedom on grounds of residency on free soil. Typically courts sided with slaves - even in southern courts. Dred scott paid for lawyers through abolitionist money. Court dominated by southern, pro slavery interests. Affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created republican party. Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in any of the territories, thus. Scott"s claim that congress" claim that specific state had no slavery was void.

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