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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
party held to the doctrine that the Constitution recognized slavery, and that nothing could be done towards its abolition except through an amendment to the Constitution; while the proposition of the Free-Soil party, as enunciated by Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, one of its leaders at that time, was that the Constitution was a covenant with hell and a league with death. The State had been under the control of the Whig party for more than thirty years, save that the Democrats had elected Marcus Morton governor in 1839 and 1841, each time by a majority of one vote only, counted, I am proud to say, for the honor of the Whig party and of the State, by opposition returning boards. Reform had become very necessary because of the oppressive anti-labor legislation of the Whig party under the lead of the manufacturers. To bring about this reform a coalition of the Free-Soil and Democratic parties was attempted and partially carried out. I was very strongly in favor of it because I saw ho