Final note on the 1852 Frederick Douglass speech: in 1852, slavery seemed to be winning. 1850 saw a new Fugitive Slave Law to appease threats of secession. Democrats, the pro-slave party, were sweeping to such a decisive victory the country was momentarily returned to 1 party.
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And as several others have noted, the rallying cry of the new Republican Party was that the classical liberal principles of the Founding, Declaration & Constitution were incompatible with slavery.
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Those principles still matter today, & their preservation & expansion are the legacy of men like Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln. May we honor them & reject the siren song of those who would discard them behind quotations that misunderstand them.
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