CHAPTER VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Pro-slavery Reaction--Indiana and Ohio--Race for Congress--Free Soil Gains in other States--National Convention at Cleveland-- National Canvass of 1852--Nomination of Pierce and Scott, and the "finality" Platforms--Free Soil National Convention--Nomination of Hale--Samuel Lewis--The Whig Canvass--Webster--Canvass of the Democrats--Return of New York "Barnburners" to the Party--The Free Soil Campaign--Stumping Kentucky with Clay--Rev. John G. Fee-- Incidents--Mob Law in Indiana--Result of the Canvass--Ruin of the Whigs--Disheartening Facts--The other Side of the Picture. CHAPTER VII. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY (CONTINUED). A Notable Fugitive Slave Case--Inauguration of Pierce--Repeal of the Missouri Compromise--Its Effects upon the Parties--The Free Soil Position--Know-Nothingism--The Situation--First Steps in the Formation of the Republican Party--Movements of the Know-Nothings --Mistake of the Free Soilers--Anti-slavery Progress--Election of Banks as Speaker--Call for a Republican National Convention at Pittsburg--Organization of the Party--The Philadelphia Convention and its Platform--Nomination of Fremont--Know-Nothing and Whig Nominations--Democratic Nomination and Platform--The Grand Issue of the Campaign--The Democratic Canvass--The splendid Fight for Fremont--Triumph of Buchanan--Its Causes and Results--The Teaching of Events. CHAPTER VIII. PROGRESS OF REPUBLICANISM. The Dred Scott Decision--Struggle for Freedom in Kansas--Instructive Debates in Congress--Republican Gains in the Thirty-fifth Congress --The English Bill--Its Defeat and the Effect--Defection of Douglas --Its Advantages and its Perils--Strange Course of the New York Tribune and other Papers--Republican Retreat in Indiana--Illinois Republicans stand firm, and hold the Party to its Position--Gains in the Thirty-sixth Congress--Southern Barbarism and Extravagance --John Brown's Raid--Cuba and the Slave-trade--Oregon and Kansas-- Aids to Anti-slavery Progress--The Speakership and Helper's Book-- Southern Insolence and Extravagance--Degradation of Douglas--Slave- code for the Territories--Outrages in the South--Campaign of 1860 --Charleston Convention and Division of the Democrats--Madness of the Factions--Bell and Everett--Republican Convention and its Platform--Lincoln and Seward--Canvass of Douglas--Campaign for Lincoln--Conduct of Seward--Republican Concessions and slave-holding Madness.