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 masses on one side, and Robert J. Walker, Henry Stuart Foote, Jefferson Davis, and others equally as powerful on the other side. Free soil and the abolition of slavery were the watchwords of a small party destined in a future day to be masters of the situation, and sway the destinies of the United States.

The election of 1844 settled the policy of the Cabinet and Senate at Washington city.