Throughout the whole ran the thread of one distinct proposition,--that the Republican party had sinned away its day of grace, and that the patriotic work of the Democratic party must begin at once if the Union was to be saved.
This statement encapsulates the central argument that the Democratic party must take action to save the Union.
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And is it not needed when its taking helps us and hurts our enemy?
His lightest word, sent thrilling to the rim of a vast audience, swayed it with the magic of control.
People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
He represented Republican principles and aims more fully than any man in the country, but Thurlow Weed, looking into the future through the eyes of a practical politician, disbelieved in Republican success.
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