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A New Kind of Patriotism
A New Kind of Patriotism

“Let the Union slide.”

Those words come from an 1855 speech by Massachusetts Congressman Nathaniel P. Banks. Banks was addressing an anti-slavery rally on the campaign trail in Portland, Maine. Decrying the Slavocracy in the south, he stated:

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“You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

— Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison


Source: William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison and Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879, vol. IV, p. 224, Century Co. (1885)