“The Republican Party, on the contrary [to the Democrats], holds that this government
was instituted to secure the blessings of freedom, and that slavery is an unqualified evil... [Republicans] will oppose in
all its length and breadth the modern Democratic idea that slavery is as good as freedom.”
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"Our country has to decide, whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether to abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives better than we can plan them ourselves.” |
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