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After the Whig Party and the Democratic Party nominated presidential candidates who were unwilling to rule out the extension of slavery into the Mexican Cession, anti-slavery Democrats and Whigs joined with members of the Liberty Party (an abolitionist political party) to form the new Free Soil Party. Running as the Free Soil presidential ...
The Buffalo Free Soil convention opened on August 9 with approximately 20,000 Democrats, Whigs, and Liberty men in attendance. Many of the Whigs hoped for the nomination of Supreme Court Justice John McLean, who had been available as a candidate for the Whig and Anti-Masonic parties in past elections. Most Liberty men still supported Hale; but ...
The third-party vote tripled, and the total vote remained nearly stationary: a partial indication, perhaps, of the derivation of the Free Soil strength in this section. For the first time since the existence of the Whig Party, the Whigs failed to gain an absolute majority of the vote in Massachusetts and Vermont.
Anti-slavery Northern Whigs disaffected with Taylor joined with Democratic supporters of Martin Van Buren and some members of the Liberty Party to found the new Free Soil Party; the party nominated a ticket of Van Buren and Whig Charles Francis Adams Sr. and campaigned against the spread of slavery into the territories. [94]
In 1853 and 1854, the Free Soil Party in several states had joined with anti-slavery Democrats and Whigs to form a new Republican Party. In July, the Massachusetts Free Soil Party attempted to do likewise with an abortive "People's Convention," but the proposal failed to attract Whig or Democratic support. Whigs, confident in their dominance ...
[Also known as the National Democratic or Democratic Republican Party] 1848: Free Soil: Utica, New York & Buffalo 1848 Martin Van Buren: united Liberty Party supporters with anti-slavery Democrats and Whigs 1852: Free Soil Pittsburgh: 1852 John P. Hale: Most Free-Soilers joined the Republican Party after its foundation in 1854. 1856: American ...
The Whigs lost a small number of seats but remained the second largest party, while the Free Soil Party picked up a handful of seats. [6] The House elected Democrat Howell Cobb as Speaker after sixty-three ballots. [7] In the Senate, the Whigs won minor gains, cutting into the Democratic majority. [8]
The 1851 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held during January 1851.Free Soil Party candidate Charles Sumner was elected by a coalition of Free-Soil and Democratic legislators over Whig incumbent Robert C. Winthrop, who had been appointed to finish the term of retiring Senator Daniel Webster.