The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . PART Part Third. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY — ITS RECORDAND ITS PRESENT POSITION. Chapter I. ITS GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS. REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE POLITICAL BREAK-UP FOR-MATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ELECTION OF 1S56 — FREE-DOM OR SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATE—ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN—SECESSION WAR FOR THE UNION — UNPATRIOTIC ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY — THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE DEFENDER OF NATIONALITY EMANCIPATION ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE COLORED RACE. In 1852, Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was elec


The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . PART Part Third. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY — ITS RECORDAND ITS PRESENT POSITION. Chapter I. ITS GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS. REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE POLITICAL BREAK-UP FOR-MATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ELECTION OF 1S56 — FREE-DOM OR SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATE—ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN—SECESSION WAR FOR THE UNION — UNPATRIOTIC ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY — THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE DEFENDER OF NATIONALITY EMANCIPATION ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE COLORED RACE. In 1852, Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was electedPresident by the Democratic party, receiving the electoralvotes of twenty-seven states. Four States only, Massachusettsand Vermont in the North, and Kentucky and Tennessee in theSouth, cast their votes for General vScott, the Whig candidate. The Democratic platform, upon which Mr. Pierce waschosen, was framed in entire subserviency to the interests andthe wishes of the Southern slave-holders. The DemocraticConvention resolved that all eftbrts


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