"...The Slave power, by its fast and subservient friend the Democratic party, has, on a National high way, by force deprived private citizens of the nation of their property without any compensation and without any cause. It has submerged in the Missouri and Kansas rivers, printing presses because they advocated freedom of speech--it has tarred and feathered ministers of the gospel who have proclaimed the sins of Slavery, and has deprived American citizens of their right of suffrage; their right to bear and keep arms; it has deprived them of their National rights, and this in the name of Democracy and "Law and Order."
"These usages have not been confined to the Slave States, where all persons are compelled to bow to slavery--the house-hold god of the present Democracy...."
- Holmes County Republican, Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, Thursday, October 23, 1856. Vol. 1 No. 9. Pg. 1
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