Under a different name, we had the same, or a similar party, here; a party which despised the negro and consigned him to perpetual slavery; a party which was willing to allow the American Union to be shivered into fragments, rather than that one hair of the head of slavery should be injured.
Douglass describes a political party in America that prioritized the preservation of slavery over the unity of the nation.
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