But while slavery was already playing its part in American politics it had not yet become the main line of party cleavage. Although the party of free trade and of State rights was the party of the South, it was not yet the party of slavery. It was still throughout America the "people's party," and the slave power was the last to desire that it should cease to hold that title, especially in the North. For many a year to come there would be stout Abolitionists who could call themselves Democrats; while "dough-faces," or politicians who served the party of slavery, were always to be found amongst the Whigs. Even while party feeling ran high, the increase of the means of communication and the introduction of steam transport, both on land and water, favoured the larger Federal sentiment and quickened the national consciousness. Talk of secession had been heard in New England as well as in South Carolina; but actual secession became more difficult as the manufacturers of the East, the cotton-growers of the South, and the farmers of the Mississippi basin had tangible evidence of the many interests and privileges which were common to them, and beheld more and more clearly the future upon which America was entering. Year by year the idea of the Union gained in vitality; and in spite of party feeling, President Jackson had a nation behind him when he refused to yield to South Carolina's threat of secession. A compromise was effected, and Carolina submitted to the collection of duties under a somewhat mitigated tariff: the relation of the constituent States to the Federal power remaining still undefined, waiting, for a generation to come, upon the growth of national sentiment on the one hand, and the accumulation of resentment upon the other. FOOTNOTES: [29] _Comp. Prose_; Bucke; MSS. Harned. [30] Descriptions of Brooklyn at this time in _Mem. Hist. N.Y._; Roosevelt; Thompson, 179 n.; Furman's _Brooklyn_; Furman's _Antiq._, 390-97; Burroughs; _Comp. Prose_, 10 n., 510, etc. [31] _Comp. Prose_, 9 n. [32] _W. W.'s Diary in Canada_, 5. [33] _L. of G._, 196. [34] _Cf._ especially:-- Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations, Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me, Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night, By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon, The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within, The unknown want, the destiny of me. [35] _Comp. Prose_, 10; Grace Gilchrist in _Temple Bar_, cxiii., 200. [36] MSS. Harned; _Comp. Prose_, 9. [37] _In re_, 38. [38] _Comp. Prose_, 9, 457-474; E. Hicks' _Journal_, under 1829; _The Friend_ (Philadelphia), _or Advocate of Truth_, i., 216 (1828). [39] 3rd ed., 438. [40] _The Beacon_, 145. [41] Bucke, 61. [42] _Comp. Prose_, 9; _L. of G._, 440. [43] Bucke; MSS. Harned. [44] _Comp. Prose_, 9, 10; MSS. Harned. [45] MSS. Johnston, paper by Chandos Fulton.