Some eight Southern
delegations have seceded from the Charleston Convention. It refused to make a
slave code for the territories an article of faith, and hence this schism. So
the great National Democratic party is disintegrated and dead; broken up, like
so many other organizations, by these pernicious niggers. It is a bad sign.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, pp. 24-5
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