Would you arrest these terrible corruptions, and the disastrous influence from which they spring, involving nothing less than civilization on this continent, the Republican party tells you how, and, in telling you how, vindicates at once…

A party with such an origin and such a necessity cannot be for a day, or for this election only.

If bad men conspire for Slavery, good men must combine for Freedom; nor can the Holy War be ended, until the Barbarism now dominant in the Republic is overthrown, and the Pagan power is driven from our Jerusalem.

And when this triumph is won, securing the immediate object of our organization, the Republican party will not die, but, purified by long contest with Slavery, and filled with higher life, it will be lifted to yet other efforts for the…

Electing these, we shall put the National Government, at least in its Executive department, openly and actively on the side of Freedom; and this alone will be of incalculable influence, not only in itself, but as harbinger of the Future.

Next, we shall save the country and the age from that crying infamy, the Slave-Trade, whose opening anew, as now menaced, is but a logical consequence of the new theories of Slavery.

If Slavery be the “blessing” it is vaunted, then must the Slave-Trade be beneficent, while they who ply it with fiercest activity take place among the missionaries and saints of humanity.

Next, we shall help save the Declaration of Independence, now dishonored and disowned in its essential, life-giving truth,--the Equality of Men.

As well deny arithmetically that two and two make four, or deny geometrically that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, as deny the axiomatic, self-evident, beaming truth, that all men are equal.

As of the sun in the heavens, blind is he who cannot perceive it.

Of course, this principle, uttered in a Declaration of Rights, is applicable simply to rights; and it is a childish sophism to allege against it the obvious inequalities of form, character, and faculties.

As axiom, it admits no exception; for it is the essence of an axiom, whether in geometry or in morals, to be universal.

As abstract truth, it is also without exception, according to the essence of such truth.

And, finally, as self-evident truth, so announced in the Declaration, it is without exception; for only such truth can be self-evident.

Thus, whether axiom, abstract truth, or self-evident truth, it is always universal.

In vindicating this principle, the Republican party have a grateful duty, to which they are moved by justice to a much-injured race, excluded from its protection, and by justice also to the Fathers, whose well-chosen words, fit foundation…

Nor can the madness of the Propagandists be better illustrated than in this assault on the Declaration of Independence, stultifying the Fathers for no other purpose than to clear the way for their five-headed abomination of Compulsory…

And, finally, we shall help expel the Slave Oligarchy from all its seats of National power, driving it back within the States.

This alone is worthy of every effort; for, until this is done, nothing else can be completely done.

Prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and the door will be open to all generous principles.

Prostrated, exposed, and permanently expelled from ill-gotten power, the Oligarchy will cease to exist as a political combination.

Surely, then, in its retreat, smarting under the indignation of an aroused people and the concurring judgment of the civilized world, it must die,--it may be as a poisoned rat dies of rage in its hole.

Well-proved facts vindicate completely the policy of Emancipation, even if it were not commanded by the simplest rules of morality.

All testimony, whether from official documents or from travellers, shows, beyond question, that in these islands the condition of the negro is improved by emancipation; but this testimony is especially instructive, when we learn that the…

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.