Its demand was a slave code for the Territories, and it would accept nothing less.
George Julian: “Its demand was a slave code for the Territories, and it would accept nothing less.”
Editor's note · Context
He emphasizes the uncompromising demand for a slave code in the Territories as a critical issue of the time.
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Then ho! for March fourth, forty-one, boys, We'll shout till the heavens' arched blue Shall echo hard cider and fun, boys, Drink, drink, to old Tippecanoe.
In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.
He was unquestionably honest and patriotic, and the fact that he was a poor man, and a plain farmer of the West, could properly form no objection to his character or his fitness for the Presidency.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.





