<P> In August 1854, an alliance was brokered at Ottawa, Illinois between the Free Soil Party and the Whigs (in part based on the efforts of local newspaper publisher Jonathan F. Linton) that gave rise to the new Republican Party which had been founded in March of that year . </P> <P> Free Soil Township, Michigan was named after the Free Soil party in 1848 . </P> <P> Free Soil candidates ran on a platform that declared: "(W) e inscribe on our banner,' Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men,' and under it we will fight on, and fight forever, until a triumphant victory shall reward our exertions". The party also called for a tariff for revenue only (i.e. import taxes sufficient to meet federal government expenses without creating protectionist trade barriers) and for a homestead act . The Free Soil Party's main support came from areas of Ohio, upstate New York and western Massachusetts, although other northern states also had representatives . The party contended that slavery undermined the dignity of labor and inhibited social mobility and was therefore fundamentally undemocratic . Viewing slavery as an economically inefficient, obsolete institution, Free Soilers believed that slavery should be contained and that if contained it would ultimately disappear . </P> <Ul> <Li> Jonathan Blanchard, President of Knox College </Li> <Li> Walter Booth, Congressman from Connecticut </Li> <Li> David C. Broderick, Senator from California </Li> <Li> William Cullen Bryant </Li> <Li> Salmon P. Chase, Senator from Ohio </Li> <Li> Oren B. Cheney, legislator from Maine and founder of Bates College </Li> <Li> Richard Henry Dana, Jr . </Li> <Li> Sidney Edgerton, Congressman from Ohio, Chief Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court and Territorial Governor of Montana </Li> <Li> John C. Frémont, Senator from California </Li> <Li> Leander F. Frisby, Wisconsin Attorney General </Li> <Li> Joshua Reed Giddings, Congressman from Ohio </Li> <Li> Francis Gillette, Senator from Connecticut </Li> <Li> James Harlan, Senator from Iowa </Li> <Li> Thomas Hoyne, future Mayor of Chicago </Li> <Li> Horace Mann, Congressman from Massachusetts and educational reformer </Li> <Li> J. Young Scammon, Chicago pioneer and state Whig leader who in 1848 ran on a "Free Soil plank" in the 4th Congressional District </Li> <Li> William B. Ogden, former Mayor of Chicago and President of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad </Li> <Li> Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts </Li> <Li> Walt Whitman, member of the Free Soil Committee for Brooklyn and editor of the Brooklyn Freeman, a Free Soil newspaper </Li> <Li> John Greenleaf Whittier </Li> <Li> Henry Wilson </Li> <Li> Asa Walker </Li> <Li> Victor Willard, Wisconsin State Senator, 17th District, 1849--1850; and Wisconsin Constitutional Convention Delegate, 1846 (Democrat) </Li> <Li> Willard Woodard, educator, publisher, Free Soil club co-founder and President </Li> </Ul>

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