WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DONE FOR THE COUNTRY? More than any other party in the world’s history. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SAVED THE UNION? But for this party, we might to-day, divided into sections, be the easy prey of ambitious empires across the sea. But for this party, we might to-day have slavery blighting the industries and morals of the Nation. It has FREED FOUR MILLION HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE CURSE OF SLAVERY. The war was begun to save the Union. It soon became evr dent, however, that slavery must be abolished; that nothing would so soon end the struggle. The blacks had fled by tens of thousands to Northern camps; the rest were raising food on the plantations for Southern soldiers. By the grandest stroke of any pen, Abraham Lincoln, September 22d, 1862, through the Emancipation Proclamation made the colored people of the United States, free. GIVEN CITIZENSHIP TO THE NEGRO. The Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery, passed the Senate in April, 1864, by thirty-eight yeas to six nays; only two Democrats voting for it! In the House the measure received fifty-six nays—all Democrats. Can any colored man, seeing this, vote the Democratic ticket? The Fourteenth Amendment gave equal rights and privileges to all; declared that the United States should not assume the rebel debt, nor pay for emancipated slaves. This also the Democratic party vigorously opposed as unconstitutional! No party has ever talked more fluently about the Constitution, nor broken it more easily. The Fifteenth Amendment gave the vote to each citizen, so that it cannot be denied on account of “race, color, or previous condition _o( servitude.”
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