ice but to drive out the Southerners and their way of life. Even the abolitionists were better than these Free-Soilers, he complained, because the abolitionists were driven by upright moral convictions that slavery was wrong.
             However, all political parties are really nothing more than joint stock associations. "Those who contribute most direct the action and management of the concern," said William H. Seward. Since the slaveholders contributed the most to the Democratic Party, they basically dictate the party's platform. Seward later predicts the Civil War by looking upon the struggles of North and South and seeing that eventually there must be an "irrepressible conflict." The opposing and enduring forces of the North and South cannot end in a peaceful resolution, but in war. The North, for many years had attempted to reform
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