First, then we have the free soil, or republican party. This is a powerful party, so far as numbers and influence is concerned, and it sweeping over the country with restless efficacy. what are its characteristics? The principle which imparts vitality to the republican organization is simply the non-extension of slavery. It motto is "no slavery outside the slave states." It propose to restrict slavery, and keep it within what is called its constitutional limits.
Am interpreting the free soil to be the split during the 1840's between the people who wanted slavery and the one's who oppose it. so the democratic was against slavery while the republican support slavery. The republican was so powerful back then and still is to this day it sweep the entire nation like a disease. They did not want the slave to mess up their capital..At the time New York and Pennsylvania were free states while Maryland and Virginia were slaves states.I think it was amazing to see how close the states where and people were still fighting for equality. The length the government will go through back then was very excessive. Now that some of the states were free Douglass pushes for equality and education among minority. It was double standard because the thirteenth amendment prohibited slavery, fourteenth granted citizenship and the fifteenth the right to vote. While the republican party didn't support black.
I choose this quote because Fredrick Douglass help to shape the American nation we live in today that we can live comfortable with the few equal rights we have this day. Still minority are still fighting for equality among jobs, school, and community. He believe in woman's right to shape society. That was very powerful because woman in those days were not consider of value
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