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The Fugitive Slave Act was particularly offensive to northerners.  It amended the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 in order to appoint federal commissioners to catch slaves who fled to northern states, without giving them due process.
 
The Fugitive Slave Act was particularly offensive to northerners.  It amended the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 in order to appoint federal commissioners to catch slaves who fled to northern states, without giving them due process.
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==Anti-slavery Sentiments Rise==
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But real leaders were arising outside of the presidency:  Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.  Douglas was the Jacksonian Democrat, while Lincoln was initially the anti-Jackson Whig.  Everything between President Jackson (1836) and the Civil War (1861) can be understood through the eyes of Douglas and Lincoln.  Both were from Illinois, a state that was ideologically in the middle between the North and the South. 
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Illinois was a key state because it was just across the Mississippi river from Missouri, which was a slave state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. 
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Elijah Lovejoy was a pastor in St. Louis, and in 1837, he started a newspaper called the ''St. Louis Observer'' which published articles against slavery.  The opposition to his paper was so great that he had to move to Alton, Illinois.  There, he kept publishing articles against slavery.
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But the opposition didn't cease, and Lovejoy's printing press was thrown into the river three times!  The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society gave him a new printing press, and local slave owners decided to destroy it.  A mob came over from St. Louis and Lovejoy was killed trying to protect his press.  This violence shocked the North.
      
==Franklin Pierce==
 
==Franklin Pierce==
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