The person who did it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican president. Our party was crazy, created in order to defeat slavery. That was the purpose. That's the origin of the Republican Party. The Democrat Party... defended slavery and fought ferociously in favor of slavery. But the way the abolitionists in the Republican Party successfully abolished slavery was not by attacking our founding principles, not by attacking the Constitution, not by attacking the Declaration of. (23:10–23:18)
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