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Other than "moral indignity" of slavery, why would a Northern wage laborer care about slavery? What would he gain by slavery ending in the south?

And no, you can't give me that "oh well the wage labor was so awesome" since they knew they were slaves too. Or at least were told so by Southern ... I guess the term would be Fire-Eaters.

Why did they vote Republican? The Whig economic stuff? How did Stephen Douglas differ on that mofo? He was a Democrat yeah...but in the North. Did his popular sovereignty ideal for Kansas carry over to internal improvements.

Why was the Democratic Party split so late? The way it looks, Lincoln was able to win in '60 because the Democratic Party thought it was still running against Henry Clay, or his puppets/war heroes (Clay always losing to war heroes....awesome!).

But Clay died a whole senate term before the '60 campaign. The Whigs only lasted two more years before they dissolved and then coagulated back into the Republican party. Economically, still Whigs, socially, politicians who just can't help themselves but bitch about the South, I guess.

Calhoun died in when? Early 1850. Ten more years of goofing off, people like Stephen Douglas and James Buchanan partying together. I don't understand why. Oh well.