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Is there anything in the principles and opinions of the great DEMOCRATIC RABBLE, as it has been justly called, which should induce us to identify ourselves with that?
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan critiques the principles of the Democratic Party, referring to it as a 'democratic rabble.'
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Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?