Three-quarters of the Republican congressmen and senators in the next Congress would represent this “Yankee” and antislavery portion of the free states. These facts were “full of portentous significance,” declared the New Orleans Crescent. “The idle canvass prattle about Northern conservatism may now be dismissed,” agreed the Richmond Examiner. “A party founded on the single sentiment . . . of hatred of African slavery, is now the controlling power.”
