/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Atlee, Benjamin Champneys. Title: Thaddeus Stevens and slavery / by Benj. C. Atlee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society

Thaddeus Stevens and the Southern States Thaddeus Stevens was very bitter in his political enmity to the Southern States. He resented the influence in both the Houses of Congress of the members from that section, which usually returned, by re-election, most of its able men, therefore giving it

- bate, of popular discussion on the hustings and movements of political Parties, be fairly traced from that time down to the outbreak of the war, it will be found that Mr. Buchanan's attitude toward slavery was no more friendly than that of the great masses of the people of the United States, and of

The Position of Lancaster County on the Missouri Compromise. I am requested to write a short paper on our county's attitude toward the Missouri Compromise. The So- ciety has adopted the plan of having all the papers of the year upon one or another of the various phases of Lancaster County and

, regardless of its constitutional protec­ tion or right at law. For this class Lancaster County's then representative in Congress, Thaddeus Stevens, was the boldest and most aggres­ sive spokesman. When, in 1851, he denounced every form of human slavery he was so far in advance of his party (Whig �12 THE

be disposed of, and the contest was on again. Maine was cut off from Massachusetts and ad- mitted in 1820, and then the Missouri Compromise was passed and Missouri admitted as a slave State; but the status of slavery was settled forever in this direction. The South next looked toward Texas. The