...tain" it, i.e., limit it to the 15 states where it had already existed. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the... ...- seceded but were controlled by the Union's army throughout the war. Maryland and Delaware were slave states but did not secede. President J... ..."discipline" the workforce in the plantations - but also targeted Republicans. The Democrats changed their name after the war to the Conservative P... ... served a short sentence for tampering with a jury and for criminal contempt. The Democrats failed to capitalize on the affair and lost the presid...

...nd people, or more than in some of our old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our newer States, and less than in some of our larg... ...h you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as “Democrats.” Nor can I, with full respect for their known intelligence, and ... ...ent, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves “Democrats” rather than “American citizens.” In this time of national peril ... ... denied me this I will yet be thankful for the country’s sake that not all Democrats have done so. He on whose discretionary judgment Mr. V allandigha... ...ial mantle at the hands of President Jackson. And still more: of all those Democrats who are nobly exposing their lives and shedding their blood on th...

...of the nine States above named. But the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, thou... ...d I think that the North will ultimately make good its claim. Maryland and Delaware lie, as it were, behind the capital, and Eastern Virginia is close... ... claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, and will en- deavor to prove its right to the claim... ...ct of the social institution being the law of the land in those States. Of Delaware, Maryland, and Eastern Virginia, I have al- ready spoken. Western ... ...n the doubtful States: Free. Slave. Total. Maryland 646,183 85,382 731,565 Delaware 110,548 1,805 112,353 Virginia 1,097,373 495,826 1,593,199 Kentuck... ... own party could say for him, even in his own State of New York. As to the Democrats, their language respecting him was as harsh as any that I have he... .... Lin- coln at that time submitted himself to a compromise in favor of the Democrats, promising the support of the gov- 323 Trollope ernment to certa...

...respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They come from one extremi... ...ndiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Florida return only 1 each. When the Constitution was... ...slaves—will tell 66 North America V ol. 2 the same story. In Maryland and Delaware are men who hate slavery, who would be only too happy to enfranchi... ...r become slave soil. Kentucky and Virginia, as also of course Maryland and Delaware, four of the old slave States, were already north of that line; bu... ...he record which has been made of his public misdeeds. He is decried by the Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists because... ...ther of those politi- cians in the States who have since taken the name of Democrats, and in accordance with whose theory it has come to pass that eve... ...ct that many Senators, especially those who have been sent to the House as Democrats, do allow the State legislatures to dictate to them their votes, ... ...ame State supplies to the Lower House. When the Consti- tution was framed, Delaware was to send one member to the House of Representatives, and Pennsy... ...ow say that the necessity has as yet disappeared. In the minds of thorough democrats it will be considered much that the poorest man of the people sho...