The Free Soil leaders thought the effect of this would be the eventual destruction of the Whig Party at the North,--as afterward proved to be the case,-- and the building up in its place of a party founded on the principle of opposition to the extension of slavery.
Hoar discusses the strategic political maneuvers that led to the decline of the Whig Party in favor of a new party opposing slavery.
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