<span>In the 1850's Northern sympathies with the South eroded over the issue of slavery. The Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern factions, permitting Lincoln's Republican party to gain control of Congress and the White House in 1860. The South realized they no longer had allies in control of the Federal Government.</span>
The Republic of Texas inherited from the provisional and ad interim governments a debt estimated at $1.25 million. Of this, $100,000 was in the form of loans and the remainder in the form of claims for services and supplies.
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