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	Free Soil Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party evolved from abolitionists in the Democratic and Whig parties.
		Collapse of the Whig party and the Compromise of 1850
		The Whig Party dissolved after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and many northern Whigs combined with former Free-Soilers and northern Democrats to form the Republican Party, which advocated a free-soil platform while changing their name in order to avoid being associated with the failure of the Free Soil Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Free_Soil_Party (583 words)

	Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whig Party was a political party of the United States from 1834 to 1860, formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat, and in particular supporting the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favoring a program of modernization and economic development.
		In its early form the Whig Party was united only by opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially his removal of the deposits from the Bank of the United States without the consent of Congress.
		In the 1836 elections the party was not yet sufficiently organized to run one nationwide candidate; instead William Henry Harrison ran in the northern and border states, Hugh Lawson White ran in the South, and Daniel Webster ran in his home state of Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Whig_Party (1567 words)

	Encyclopedia: Republican Party (United States)
		The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party [1]), is one of the two major political parties in the United States (the other being the Democratic Party).
		Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.
		Portrait of U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 â€“ August 27, 1948) was a Governor of New York, a United States Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States.
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	Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Whig Party was a political party of the United States created in order to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson, and which named itself by analogy with the British Whigs, who had opposed the power of the King in Restoration England.
		The party was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 at Washington dinner parties by National Republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, as well as Southern States' Rights supporters such as.
		In its early form the Whig Party was united only by opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially his removal of the deposits from the Bank of the United States.
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	Free Soil Party
		he Free soil party, a political party organized in 1848 on a platform opposing the extension of slavery, was rooted in the growing conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in the United States.
		The major groups involved in the organization of the Free Soil party at a convention in Buffalo, New York, were the abolitionist Liberty Party, the antislavery Whigs, and a radical faction of the New York Democrats, the Barnburners, who had broken with the state party when it came under control of the conservative Hunkers.
		The Free soil convention nominated Martin van Buren and Charles Francis Adams as candidates for president and vice-president, respectively, adopting a platform opposed to the extension of slavery and calling for a homestead law and a tariff for revenue only.
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	Encyclopedia: United-States-Whig-Party
		The United States Whig Party was a political party of the United States.
		The party was created in order to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson and called itself the Whig Party by analogy with the English Whigs, who had opposed the power of the King in Restoration England.
		The party was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 at Washington dinner parties by National Republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, as well as Southern States' Rights supporters such as W.P. Mangum.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United_States_Whig_Party (3591 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 92, FREE-SOIL PARTY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		It was attended by 465 delegates from nearly all the free states, and from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, eighteen states in all.
		In 1850 the state convention went further, and passed a resolution that it was "proud to avow its fraternity with and devotion to" the principles of the democratic national convention of 1848.
		The free-soilers therefore held a convention at Pittsburg, Aug 11, 1852, with delegates from all the free states, and from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy483.html (1264 words)

	Encyclopedia: Free Soil Party
		Liberty Party was a political party in the United States during the mid-19th century.
		The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States.
		The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Free-Soil-Party (1763 words)

	FREE SOIL PARTY - LoveToKnow Article on FREE SOIL PARTY
		The party was prominent in the presidential campaigns of 1848 and 1852.
		The free soilers, however, succeeded in sending to the thirty-first Congress two senators and fourteen representatives, who by their ability exercised an influence out of proportion to their number.
		By 1856 they abandoned their separate organization and joined the movement which resulted in the formation of the powerful Republican party (q.v.), of which the Free Soil party was the legitimate precursor.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREE_SOIL_PARTY.htm (297 words)

	Horace Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Resigning the secretaryship in 1848, Horace Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives as an anti-slavery Whig to succeed John Quincy Adams, and was re-elected in 1849, and, as an independent candidate, in 1850, serving until March 1853.
		In 1852 he was the candidate of the United States Free Soil Party for the governorship of Massachusetts, but was defeated.
		In Congress he was one of the ablest opponents of slavery, contending particularly against the Compromise of 1850, but he was never technically an Abolitionist and he disapproved of the radicalism of William Lloyd Garrison and his followers.
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	African American Journey: Free Soil Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories and the admission of new slave states to the Union.
		The Free Soil Party was joined and strengthened by a discontented faction of the Democratic Party in New York that was known as the Barnburners.
		A coalition of the Free Soil and Democratic parties elected Salmon P. Chase to the Senate in 1848, and Charles Sumner in 1851.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aajourney_new/html/aa_2_freesoil.shtml (210 words)

	AllRefer.com - Free-Soil party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Free-Soil party, in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847–48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery into any of the territories newly acquired from Mexico.
		The party elected one Senator, Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, and 13 Congressmen.
		In 1854 the party was absorbed into the new Republican party.
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	United States Free Soil Party : Free Soil Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Free Soil Party was a political party in the United States organized in 1848, with the main purpose of opposing the extension of slavery into the territories of the United States, as well as abolishing slavery itself.
		Their first party convention was in Buffalo, New York, where they nominated former President Martin Van Buren with Charles Francis Adams[?] as Vice President for their ticket.
		Consequently, when the ball ceased to roll and a sepulchral voice croupier a gaze that began by being joyful and expectant and ended, the seen all the sorrow and wickedness that there had ever been in the melancholy of the latter, but he did not speak.
	www.termsdefined.net /fr/free-soil-party.html (663 words)

	Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was assumed that Texas would be the last slave state to enter the Union, leaving California and New Mexico for free labor.
		The Free Soil Party formed in support of the Wilmot Proviso, and their platform of Free Soil was later adopted by the Republican Party.
		The amendment was never actually adopted by Congress, and was in fact expressly repudiated in the Compromise of 1850, and its content declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.
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	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whig party -> Party Successes In the 1836 presidential election the Whigs were not unified or strong enough to join behind a single presidential candidate; instead several Whig candidates ran for office.
		Whig party -> Disintegration By the time Fillmore had succeeded to the presidency, the disintegration of the party was already manifest; in 1848 several important Whigs joined the new Free-Soil party, along with the abolitionists.
		Whig party Whig party, one of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent.
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	Whig party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		This coalition, which later called itself the National Republican party, increased in strength after the election of Jackson in 1828 and was joined in opposition to the President by other smaller parties, the most notable being the Anti-Masonic party.
		This failure was partly a result of the sectional variations in the party, which had only one common aim, opposition to the Democrats, and partly a result of the power held by intraparty forces opposed to them, including the political bosses of New York, Thurlow Weed and William Seward.
		This move temporarily prevented a division of the party, and although Taylor died while Clay was formulating the Compromise of 1850 in Congress, Millard Fillmore, his Vice President and presidential successor, kept the faith of the Whig party.
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	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Republican Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Republican Party, one of the two major United States political parties, founded by a coalition in 1854.
		The early Republicans were united in their opposition to extending slavery into the Western territories.
		In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865).
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	FREE SOIL PARTY - Online Information article about FREE SOIL PARTY
		United States, which was organized in 1847—1848 to oppose the See also:
		Between 1848 and 1852 the " Barnburners " and the " Hunkers," their opponents, became partially reunited, the former returning to the Democratic ranks, and thus greatly weakening the Free Soilers.
		separate organization and joined the movement which resulted in the formation of the powerful Republican party (q.v.), of which the Free Soil party was the legitimate precursor.
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	Free-Soil party on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847-48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery into any of the territories newly acquired from Mexico.
		These forces met in mass convention at Buffalo in Aug., 1848, where the party was formally organized and Martin Van Buren and Charles F. Adams (1807-86) were chosen as its candidates for president and vice president.
		The Compromise of 1850 supposedly settled the slavery issue, and the Barnburner element went back to its old allegiance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/frees1oil.asp (507 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Free-Soil Party
		Salmon Portland Chase was a senator when he delivered this speech on the issue of “popular sovereignty”—whether or not to allow the settlers in...
		As was the tradition at the time, Taylor did not campaign on his own, although he wrote many letters to friends and politicians.
		A third party took part in the election of 1848.
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	Governors Of Oregon - Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When the Union-Republican Party was formed in Oregon In 1862, Gibbs was one of the first to join.
		He received the gubernatorial nomination of that party at its April 1862 convention, and was elected governor, by a vote of 7,029 to 3,450, over the Democrat, John F. Miller.
		In 1866 he was nominated by the Republicans to the United States Senate but was narrowly defeated Elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District in Oregon in I868 and reelected in 1870: appointed United States District Attorney for the District of Oregon by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872; practiced law in Portland.
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