It was moved by panics and fears to emulate the Democratic party in its practised subserviency; and it yielded in spite of your remonstrances, and of mine, and now there is neither Whig party nor Whig south of the Potomac.
This quote discusses the decline of the Whig party due to its failure to stand firm against the Democratic party's influence.
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