Volume 2, The Demagogues, explains the rise of Exclusionism, and how it grew into the powerful political force that gave birth to a victorious sectional Republican Party. What is Exclusionism? Well the Anti-Slavery Movement contained advocates of three diverse agendas. Abolitionists, vocal but few in number, wanted to make the African slave independent and free to move among the various States. What I call Exclusionists, vocal and vast in number, wanted to excluded African slaves from the National Territories and future States, nothing more. What I call Deportationists, quiet and vast in number, wanted to ethnically cleanse America by deporting African slaves to South America or Africa.
The narrative history resumes where it had concluded in Volume 1. An immense influx of immigrants and tumult in northern States politics gives rise to the Secret Order and its American Party, which destroys the already-weakened Whig Party. The organized terrorism in "Bleeding Kansas," and the corresponding propaganda dispensed through the demagoguery of unethical newspapermen and ambitious politicians, is described in detail. "Bleeding Kansas" provides the Republican Party the propaganda weapon -- the politics of Exclusionism -- it needs to destroy the Secret Order and its American Party.
Through the biographies of idealistic Charles Sumner and scheming Thaddeus Stevens, the rise of the Republican Party in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania is presented. At the same time I present the political struggle in Illinois between the Democrats, led by Stephen Douglas, and the Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln. Throughout this volume Mississippi farmer and past military commander Jefferson Davis, from his positions as Secretary of War and as the leading Senator from the southern States, leads the majority of Democrats in their efforts to defuse the Exclusionist political demagoguery that is destroying the national character of the Democratic Party and the Federal Government.
Eventually the politics of Exclusionism becomes so powerful, that Stephen Douglas and many northern States Democrats feel compelled to embrace it as well, for Republicans are rapidly capturing State governments throughout the northern States. As Douglas strives to force Exclusionism upon the national Democratic Party, he splits that Party into two sectional parties, thereby leaving no political force capable of stopping a Republican takeover of the Federal Government. So the sectional Republican Party gains an easy victory in the 1860 race for President.
This is quickly followed by the secession of seven States and the election of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy.
By deceitful manipulations President Lincoln and fellow Republican leaders incite the Confederates to fire cannon at Fort Sumter while Federal warships threaten from beyond the breakers. Immediately afterward, although Confederate shelling killed no Federal in Fort Sumter, Lincoln usurps Congressional power and proclaims a Federal invasion of the Confederacy.