Richard Schneirov wrote: > In 1840 and again in 1844 a group of "principled" abolitionists > left the Whig party and nominated James Birney for President. And the result was the election of Lincoln in 1860, the insurrection of the slave drivers, and the 13th amendment. Had some principled group kept up the struggle by deserting the Republican Party and throwing elections to the Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement might have come half a century sooner. Carrol
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