Excerpt from The Agitation of Slavery: Who Commenced, and Who Can End It!! Buchanan and Fillmore Compared From the Record
But we feel it a duty to warn you of a class of politicians who exist amongst yourselves, and who are, in effect, the most powerful allies of abolition. It is those southern men who will not admit the danger ofa sectional war, but who persist in dividing the south without the most forlorn expectation of success, and, by producing doubts amongst the conservative men of the north as to which candidate may be the most available for the defeat of abolition, weaken, neutralize, and divide the common strength which could be best commanded and conducted by the' Democratic party. This class of politicians are actuated by the same object with the Black Republicans. Conscious of their own weakness before the people, they hope, though at the expense of a most dangerous agitation, to see the executive election defeated in the electoral colleges, in order that their candidate, not being so obnoxious to the abolitionists - because of his absence from the country and its councils for some years past, and because of his ambiguous and neutral opinions - as the bold and defiant leader of the demo cratic party, may be chosen as an alternative more acceptable to each than their own avowed antagonists.
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