For one, I must say that the Democratic party has as yet given me no sufficient reasons for doing it any such service, nor has the Republican party sunk so low that I must abandon it for its great rival.
He expresses his lack of trust in the Democratic party compared to the Republican party.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.