... State of South Carolina, was a sovereign independent State, and had exclusive control over her own concerns. Whether it was a whig or democratic administration that did this, do not remember, but it makes no difference. have had no administration for the ...

... expressly mentioned. As Kuglishmen looked upon the contest, it was in fact something like a struggle between the parties of Whig and dory home. It necessarily included some change in governmental principle, well a change in the component parts of the ...

... from royal misrule, had always been earned captive by the word democratic, soon rallied to the republican standard. The old whigs had already been broken up, and their ground was fundamentally abandoned. The new party assumed, as its positive aim, to set ...

... thinking—men who, until now, have not been in the habit of thinking. A large class of men who were pro-slavery Democrats and Whigs, and who value the Union a good deal more than they do anything else but money, sail off in a new direction. Instead of holding ...