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Actually, expansion aroused Northern fears mainly because it promised to create more states hospitable to slavery, but in Buchanan's telling, the central issue of antebellum America garners barely a mention.
The antebellum modesty, while in part a reflection of the conventional etiquette of the time, may also have served a political objective: to alleviate the concerns of those who--in the early days of the republic--feared it might be transformed into a monarchy, and the president into a king.
Then he climbs in the window of a big, antebellum house and takes some guns from a glass cabinet at the foot of the main staircase.
In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.
When Brady photographed the leaders of the antebellum years--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and the rest--he turned them into actors too.