When the
Free Soilers successfully obtained the balance of power in the 1848 election for the state legislature, Chase struck a deal with the Democrats whereby they would agree to abolish the black codes that imposed legal discrimination on Ohio's free blacks, and they would vote to name Chase a U.
As president, Pierce sought to placate Southern Democrats: it was his administration that forced Massachusetts Democrats to end their alliance with the
Free Soilers (Baum, pp.
In general, Fogel identifies with the abolitionists--without discriminating the different kinds of abolitionists or, more generally, of
free soilers (like Lincoln), who were not abolitionists.
While disunities do exist (tenements, ethic tensions, and mistreated industrial workers), we see no
Free Soilers, Workingman's organizations, Know Nothings, or anti-Abolitionist sentiment.
Such arguments had been aired in years past; the General Court had debated the ten-hour issue extensively in preceding sessions but bills were always defeated when enough Democrats and
Free Soilers joined a united Whig opposition.
From the early 1840s until 1857, they shifted from Liberty men to
Free Soilers to Republicans experiencing the ups and downs of the antislavery movement; they failed to defeat the Haun exclusion law of 1851, yet delivered the state five years later to presidential candidate John C.
Many of New York's Democrats defected to the
Free Soilers, enough to throw New York to the Republicans and thus give Zachary Taylor the thirty-six electoral votes sufficient to win him the presidency.
After the Civil War, former
free soilers believed the federal government could not violate preemption or homestead rights to create a public park.
He carried guns and weapons to the
Free Soilers who were emigrating to the Kansas Territory in the 1850s.
Those opposed to slavery's movement into the territories--lumping together Barnburners,
Free Soilers, Liberty Party people, and Republicans--often did not drag emancipation into their advocacy.
Yet as the nation cleaved over the issue of chattel slavery, Missourians found themselves squarely in two lines of fire, one from the abolitionists who aimed at slaveholders in general and another from the
Free Soilers who targeted slaveholding Westerners directly.
3) Despite the obvious resemblance in language, few historians of Illinois and the Midwest have highlighted the similarities between the rhetoric that shaped the political discourse in Illinois during the 1820s and the language employed by
Free Soilers and Republicans during the political controversies of the 1840s and 1850s.
