Well as I'm sure you know we live in a society greatly impacted by technology and because so everything important usually ends up on the internet, the dissemination of news helps activists and the regular joe, educate themselves. But as in a political revolution starting I suppose dissemination would make them more educated in the debate, and allow them to spread there message.
The Consitiutional Union Party candidate John Bell hoped to ease the tension between the North and South by promising to uphold the Union and enforce federal laws.
