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while conservative on the slavery issue and anti-abolitionist, Dawson was strongly for temperance, for free public schools, ... noticeable Know-Nothing overtone...candidate for the legislature on the PEople's party ticket...candidate for... People's Party or Fusion ticket
Fort Wayne already had two viable newspapers in 1854, the antislavery Fort Wayne Times and the Democratic Fort Wayne Sentinel. The Times, published by John W. Dawson, was staunchly opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, while the Sentinel, published by Thomas Tigar, endorsed it as the key to saving the union. Although the Times was antislavery, it was also strongly opposed to abolitionism and characterized abolitionists as "fanatical" and "impractical."
