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During the Presidential election of 1856, North Carolina Republican Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was the focus of a political witch hunt by North Carolina Democratic leadership, particularly newspaper editors. A professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Hendricks supported Republican John C. Fremont in his bid for the Presidency which in North Carolina was tantamount to abolitionism. Hedrick publically opposed slavery itself and its use in the territories but defended its practice in the South. Unacceptable to Democratic leadership in North Carolina, Hedrick was dismissed from his academic position for political agitation.