<P> By the mid-1850s, Free Soil Democrats (those who followed David Wilmot and his Proviso) and anti-slavery Whigs had combined to form the Republican Party . Young America's New York Democrats who opposed slavery saw an opportunity to express their abolitionist sentiments . As a result, Horace Greeley's New York Tribune began to replace the Democratic Review as the central outlet for Young America's ever - evolving politics . In fact, Greeley's Tribune became a major advocate of not only abolition, but also of land and labor reform . </P> <P> The combined cause of land and labor reform was perhaps best exemplified by George Henry Evans' National Reform Association (NRA). In 1846, Evans stated: </P> <P> National Reformers did not consider the Freedom of the Soil a panacea for every social and political wrong, but a necessary step in progress which would greatly facilitate all desirable reform, and without which no plan of reform could prevent the downward course of labor . </P> <P> Eventually, former members of the radical Locofoco faction in the Democratic Party recognized the potential for reorganizing New York City's labor system around principles such as the common good . In contrast to the Europe in the days of the 1848 revolutions, America had no aristocratic establishment against which Young America could define itself in protest . </P>

Members of young america supported which of the following