“In America, the Democratic Party thinks slavery is 'indispensable to good government', and is 'the normal condition of one seventh part of the people.”

—  Theodore Parker

"The relation of slavery to a Republican form of government" https://archive.org/details/ASPC0005189300 (26 May 1858), New England Anti-Slavery Convention.
The relation of slavery to a Republican form of government (1858)

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