r free men--these measures I
regard as absolutely essential to the perpetuation of this Government,
and to the highest development of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have
endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it
intends to do. I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and
objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if
such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this
country--it is the misfortune of that people. They are the principles
that ought to be sustained by all people that are fitted for civil
liberty; they are the principles on which this Government was founded;
they were baptized in the best blood of this nation; they were cherished
by the greatest names that adorn the brightest pages of the history of
our country during its patriotic and virtuous and heroic age. They were
emblazoned on every banner that waved over our army in every
battle-field of the Revolution; during the storm and darkness, they were
the bright "signet on the bosom of the cloud," the rainbow of promise
and of hope.

_Published by the Republican Congressional Committee.
Price 50 cents per hundred._

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant
spellings have been retained. Significant amendments to the original
text have been listed below:

p. 2, 'Newbern' amended to _New Bern_;
'... meeting in New Bern, North Carolina ...'

p. 6, 'Scot' amended to _Scott_;
'... in the Dred Scott case ...'

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