
Locofocos, The Radical Classical Liberals
Portraits of Liberty
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The Radical Abolitionist
Lysander Spooner: William Laggot was the most radical abolitionist in the country. He says he saw it as a blatant violation of the people's equal right to use the male. And that was too much for the Jacksonians to abide, so they publicly read him out of the party with the national newspaper and called it his excommunication. Boudreau: The Locofoco Democrats divided mainline Democrats from mainline anti-slavery Democrats.
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