allied themselves with the founders of the republic. They claimed
the right to continue to repeat the words of Washington and
Jefferson and those of the members of the Virginia Legislature of
1832. No new doctrines were required. It was enough simply to
reaffirm the fundamental principles of democracy.

The names attached to the party are significant. It was at first
popularly styled the Abolition party, then officially in turn the
Liberty party, the Freesoil party, and finally the Republican
party. Republican was the name first applied to the Democratic
party--the party of Jefferson. The term Democrat was gradually
substituted under the leadership of Jackson before 1830. Some of
the men who participated in the organization of the later
Republican party had themselves been Republicans in the party of
Jefferson. They not only accepted the name which Jefferson gave
to his party, but they adopted the principles which Jefferson
proclaimed on the subject of slavery, free soil, and human rights
in general. This was the final stage in the identification of the
later anti-slavery crusade with the earlier contest for liberty.



CHAPTER VII. THE PASSING OF THE WHIG PARTY

The middle of the last century was marked by many incidents which
have left a permanent impress upon politics in general and upon
the slavery question in particular. Europe was again in the
throes of popular uprisings. New constitutions were adopted in
France, Switzerland, Prussia, and Austria. Reactions in favor of
autocracy in Austria and Germany sent multitudes of lovers of