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Is there anything in the principles and opinions of the great DEMOCRATIC RABBLE, as it has been justly called, which should induce us to identify ourselves with that?
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan critiques the principles of the Democratic Party, referring to it as a 'democratic rabble.'
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But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!
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