“The Democratic Party is inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders.”William H. Seward Speech (1859)
“The government of the United States, under the conduct of the Democratic Party, has been all that time surrendering one plain and castle after another to slavery.”William H. Seward Speech (1859)
“The history of the Democratic Party commits it to the policy of slavery. It has been the Democratic Party, and no other agency, which has carried that policy up to its present alarming culmination.”William H. Seward Speech (1859)
“I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.”William H. Seward On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)