The Free-soil sentiment which so largely pervaded the ranks of the Northern Democracy had no representative in the cabinet, and a man of pronounced anti-slavery views was as severely proscribed in Washington as a Roundhead was in London after the coronation of Charles II.
Blaine discusses the exclusion of anti-slavery voices from the political sphere in Washington during a time of intense division.
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