Excerpt from History of the United States, Vol. 2: From the Compromise of 1850, 1854-1860 Yet many Whigs who were not devoted to machine pol ities, and were therefore able to lay aside all personal and extraneous considerations, saw clearlv that a new party must be formed under a new name, and that all the men who thus joined together must stand at the start on the same footing. They differed, however, in regard to the statement of their bond of union. Some wished to go to the country with simply Repeal of the emma-nebraska act inscribed on their banner. As a new House of Representatives was to be elected in the fall, the aim should be to retire those mem bers who had voted for the bill and to return those who had opposed it. Others wished to go further in the declaration of principles, and plant themselves squarely on the platform of congressional prohibition of slavery in all of the territo ries. Still others preferred the resolve that not another slave State should be admitted into the Union. Many sug gestions, too, were made that broadened the issue. Yet, after all, the differences were only of detail, and the time seemed ripe for the formation of a political party whose cardinal principle might be summed up as opposition to the exten sion of slavery. The liberal Whigs felt that they could not ask the Free-soilers of Democratic. Antecedents and the anti Nebraska Democrats to become Whigs. To the older parti sans the name was identified with the United States bank. By all Democrats, Whig principles were understood to com prise a protective tariff and large internal improvements; to enroll themselves under that banner was to endorse prin ciples against which they had always contended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.