No, they weren't, you're just making things up. The Democrat party was STARTED to STEAL VOTES by demanding fractional voting for their slaves, and then TAKE those votes, and vote for THEMSELVES, because ''them uthurns don't no nothin about voting, I BETTER VOTE FOR THEIR INTERESTS MYSELF.''

Everybody knows the story,

everybody knows the story the side that lost tries to tell.

But thing is, there are PALLETS of books, and newspapers from the era, about North-South politics, and the literature of the day was RIDDLED with talk of slavery and what was going to be done about it.