Nullifier Party vs. Know-Nothing Party
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Question: Which party was better/less evil?
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darklordoftech
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« on: March 19, 2019, 04:57:23 PM »

The Nullifiers were Calhoun and his supporters.
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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2019, 08:25:34 PM »

The one that wasn't primarily anti-Catholic.
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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2019, 08:47:42 PM »

The one that wasn't primarily dedicated to slavery and state's rights.

(Though I voted for the wrong one in the poll...)
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« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2019, 09:23:09 PM »

Why are so many people voting for the avowedly pro-slavery party?
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2019, 09:35:43 PM »

Why are so many people voting for the avowedly pro-slavery party?
The bold could easily apply to either of these parties. While in Massachusetts, anti-slavery candidates co-opted the Know-Nothing banner for the 1854 elections while the party system was in flux, this was the exception rather than the rule: the Know Nothings had their base of support among Southern Whigs and others unwilling to join the Republicans because they were explicitly in favor of slavery, and after Millard Fillmore (of Fugitive Slave Law fame) was nominated by the Native American National Convention in 1856, the anti-slavery minority quit the party. Representing the Know Nothings as anything less than a pro-slavery party with a nativist, anti-Papist twist is ahistorical.
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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2019, 09:36:19 PM »

(Though I voted for the wrong one in the poll...)
Click "remove vote" if you want to change your vote.
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2019, 10:20:41 PM »

The Know-Nothings, but both were terrible.

The idea of states' rights and using it to defend a tariff is fine, but SC and other southern states extended it to slavery and secession, which is completely wrong, also the Know Nothings really only appear in the Election of 1856, and then they fade away. The Nullifiers get absorbed into the Southern wing of the Democrats, and the Davis/Breckinridge Southern Democrat faction was the successor of the Nullifiers
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