Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: A Redeeming Spirit Is Busily Engaged -- Chapter Two: Negro Suffrage Is Antislavery Work -- Chapter Three: This Movement Is More Radical Than the Leaders Themselves Dare Avow -- Chapter Four: A Party Separate and Distinct -- Chapter Five: The Principles of the Free Soil and Whig Parties Are Identical -- Chapter Six: We Must Unite or Be Enslaved -- Chapter Seven: This Thing Called Know Nothingism -- Chapter Eight: Freedom and Liberty First, and the Union Afterwards -- Chapter Nine: The Dangerous Doctrine of Nullification -- Chapter Ten: A Little Matter of Justice -- Chapter Eleven: It Looks Like Civil War Is Inevitable -- Chapter Twelve: The End of the Antislavery Question Has Arrived -- Appendix: Wisconsin Election Tables -- Methodological Note -- Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index