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The estimation of the Democratic Party is iniquity!

— Owen Lovejoy Speech (1860)

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I love the Constitution. It is enshrined in my heart. I love it better than any dozen Democrats in the land do tonight.

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The doors will be forever barred and bolted against those miserable Democrats who scoff the rights of man.

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I always defended it and always will, whether it be against the Democrats who pervert it, or the dis-unionists who trample on it.

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