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CHAPTER I THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE ABOLITIONISTS
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The following is an extract from Theodore Roosevelt's biography of Thomas H. Benton in Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.'s American Statesmen Series, published in 1887:
"Owing to a variety of causes, the Abolitionists have received an immense amount of hysterical1 praise which they do not deserve, and have been credited with deeds done by other men whom, in reality, they hampered2 and opposed rather than aided. After 1840, the professed3 Abolitionists formed a small and comparatively unimportant portion of the forces that were working towards the restriction4 and ultimate destruction of slavery; and much of what they did was positively5 harmful to the cause for which they were fighting. Those of their number who considered the Constitution as a league with death and hell, and who, therefore, advocated a dissolution of the union, acted as rationally as would anti-polygamists nowadays if, to show their disapproval6 of Mormonism, they should advocate that Utah should be allowed to form a separate nation. The only hope of ultimately suppressing slavery lay in the preservation7 of the union, and every Abolitionist who argued or signed a petition for the dissolution was doing as much to perpetuate8 the evil he complained of, as if he had been a slaveholder. The Liberty party, in running Birney, simply committed a political crime, evil in almost all its consequences. They in no sense paved the way for the Republican party, or helped forward the Anti-Slavery cause, or hurt the existing organizations. Their effect on the Democracy was nil9; and all they were able to accomplish with the Whigs was to make them put forward for the ensuing election a slaveholder from Louisiana, with whom they were successful. Such were the remote results of their conduct; the
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