"Mr. Chairman, I desire to state, in a few words, what I regard as the real question in controversy between the political parties of the country. The Republican Party holds that African slavery is a local institution, created and sustained by State laws and usages that cannot exist beyond the limits of the State, by virtue of whose laws it is established and sustained. The Democratic Party holds that African slavery is a national institution, recognized and sustained by the Constitution of the United States throughout the entire territorial limits, where not prohibited by State constitutions and State laws... All other questions about which we differ grow out of this, and are dependent upon it."
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Speech (15 January 1861), as quoted in Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd Sess., (Appendix), p. 58
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Benjamin Stanton
Benjamin Stanton (4 June 1809 – 2 June 1872) was an American politician from Ohio and a member of the U.S. Republican Party.
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