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The nationality of the Democratic party consists in devoting all the energies and power of the Federal Government to advancing the interests, aims, and ends, of about one hundred thousand men.
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Tompkins critiques the Democratic party for prioritizing the interests of a small group over the nation.
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Slavery had then existed in this country more than two hundred years, yet scarce a man could be then found so bold and so reckless as to proclaim it just and righteous, a humane, a Christian institution.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
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