Frederick Douglass: “With all its faults it is the best party now in existence.”

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With all its faults it is the best party now in existence.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass defends the Republican party as the best option available despite its flaws.

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Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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