Sentence:  The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the <WSD>Republican</WSD> Party , who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party