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I think you'd need a very different party system. I could imagine Andy Jackson doing something like this, but the Republican Party was basically the northern half of the old Whigs, just with a few free-soil Dems tacked on - and many of them only temporarily. And Whigs tended not to go for "root and branch" measures of that kind. For them the Constitution was sacrosanct, where for a lot of old Jacksonians "rule by the people" came first, legal niceties second, if at all.
Is there any way we can make the Democrats emerge as the antislavery party, while the Whigs are the party of the slaveowners as well as the millowners?
Alright thats a valid argument to it and I do have to agree.
Switching party roles mind you really can be done if you get rid of John Tyler's realignment.