History of Negro Slavery in Illinois And of the Slavery Agitation in That State

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Its supporters at- tempted to justify it on economic grounds, and urged the necessity of preserving the State from the evils associated with an over-supply of negro laborers. But its passage raised a great storm of opposition and criticism all over Illinois. Not only did the Free Democracy, in its paper and its conventions, denounce it in the strongest terms, but nearly even- Whig and Democratic journal in the State was outspoken against it. 1 ' From the fall of 1 85 3 to the spring of 1854 the... Free Democratic party made the repeal of this law, and of the so-called Black Laws, the chief local issues in a progressive and extensive antislavery cam- paign.
In May, 1854, the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Congress gave a new impetus to their efforts. This statute provided for the formation of two Territories 1 Illinois Statutes of i?S2. "An act to prevent the immigration of free negroes into this State. " Sees. 1-4, 8.
- "Chicaaro Journal, " February, 22; "Alton Courier, " March 4; "Alton Tele- graph, " February 21 and March 12; and "Belleville Advocate, " "Galena Ad- vertiser, " etc.


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