At the same time, fears that the Slave Power was seizing full control of the national government swept anti-slavery Republicans into office.
Opponents of the Act saw it as a triumph for the hated Slave Power.
Chase's description of an aggressive Slave Power came to be accepted in much of the North.
The Republicans thus crusaded against the Slave Power, warning it was destroying republican values.
Calhoun's fierce defense of states' rights and support for the Slave Power had influence beyond his death.
Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power.
Antislavery forces in the North identified the "Slave Power" as a direct threat to republican values.
Announced by Lincoln in September 1862, emancipation was designed primarily to destroy the economic base of the Slave Power.
History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.
The motivation of the Slave Power, he said, was to rape a virgin:
