Such is the testimony of experience, running through centuries of time. Therefore, the charge of sectionalism urged against the Republican or People's party, by the enemies of home Industry, are false. If a war against free trade and the spread of Slavery be war upon the South, then our party is guilty. But we deny that a war against these wrongs is a war against any section, or a war against the constitutional rights of any State.- Superficial observers may declare that it is a conflict of interest. But he who looks beneath the surface of things will find that there can be real conflict of interests in a government like ours, while its purity remains unsullied.
Slavery is a curse, no matter where it prevails.
It curses not only the slave, but the master as well. In the same spirit of justice to the interests of the many, it proposes to throttle free trade until it shall loose the grasp which has paralyzed the Industry of the entire country. It proposes to do battle for both of these great objects until they shall be attained. The rank and file of the People's party are prepared to do right, and abide the consequences. The Shamocratic party has waged a bitter war against the laboring man for twenty-five years.