[T]he first act of the black Republican Party will be to exclude slavery from all the territories [and] from the District of Columbia. . . . The moment that slavery is pronounced a moral evil—a sin—by the general government, that moment the safety of the rights of the South will be entirely gone. black Republican Party: a term often used by opponents of the Republicans territories: areas controlled by the United States that were not states
What did Handy predict the Republican Party would do with its power following Lincoln's election?
a. ban slaveholders from holding national office
b. arm enslaved people with rifles
c. ban slavery in Washington, D.C.
d. prohibit slavery in the territories
