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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.

Owen Lovejoy

So far as my right to life and liberty is concerned, I did not get it from Congress or Parliament. I did not get it from the Democratic Party. I did not get it from any evil spirits whose names commence with the same initials as the Democrats.

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Now comes the objection which you hear in the mouths of Democrats everywhere. Negro equality! Negro equality! The 'Black Republicans' are in favor of negro equality!

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

Owen Lovejoy

The principle of enslaving human beings because they are inferior, is this. If a man is a cripple, trip him up. If he is old and weak, and bowed with the weight of years, strike him, for he cannot strike back. If idiotic, take advantage of him, and if a child, deceive him. This, sir, this is the doctrine of Democrats and the doctrine of devils as well, and there is no place in the universe outside the five points of hell and the Democratic Party where the practice and prevalence of such doctrines would not be a disgrace.

Owen Lovejoy

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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