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The Republican Party, of which I am a member, stands pledged since 1856 to the extermination, so far as the federal government has the power, the twin relics of barbarism, slavery, and polygamy. They have this power in the territories of the United States.

— Owen Lovejoy Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1860)

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