. . . and contains more truth than can be found in whole columns of any partisan Democratic sheet in the country:
“An effort is being made to restore the Democratic party to its original greatness upon the basis that slavery is the natural relation between the white man and the negro. Its friends are extremely anxious lest the war will abolish their pet institution as well as the ‘basis’ of the party. Hence all their [shalts] are aimed at the abolitionist. It is an easy step from pro-slaveryism, to secession and rebellion.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 2
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