Excerpt from The Republican Party and Its Presidential Candidates: With Sketches of Fremont and DaytonThe high public necessity which required the re-formation of the Republican party in the United States, suggested the want Of such a descriptive history of Republicanism as would remind the Old and inform the young men of the country, of the principles and pol icy of the administrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and the younger Adams, and indicate whenfunder what pretexts and dis guises, and by what processes, the slave power, which was left in certain states in the form of a local despotism by the framers of the constitution, assailed the original theory of the republic, and arose by consecutive steps during subsequent administrations, into its present ascendency in the government, where it now controls its purse, its sword, and its national ¿ag. Whilst the circulation of congressional documents, and current newspapers and periodicals are contributing greatly to relieve this want, such publications are, from their nature, so exclusively devoted to matters of present in terest, as, in general, to leave untraced their connection with their antecedents. Something more historical, and reaching further into the past, where the usurpations and aggressions of the slave power began, appeared to be needed for the masses in the present emergency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.