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The old party had gone astray too long and too far to return, and now determined to seek its fortunes in the desperate effort to outdo the Democrats in cringing servility to the South.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The old party had gone astray too long and too far to return, and now determined to seek its fortunes in the desperate…”
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Julian condemns the Whig party's shift towards supporting pro-slavery policies, indicating a moral failure.
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Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.
The feeling against him became perfectly relentless, as I distinctly remember it, and shared in it myself; but on referring to the message now, I am astonished at the comparative moderation of its tone, and the strength of its positions.
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.
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