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like this one from the new york Post that predicted, quote,
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"gangs of men and women, chained together
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may yet be seen now marching up or down broadway,
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Or trembling in battery park."
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What was born in that summer, and especially that fall,
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was the most rapid third-party political coalition movement
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in all of American history;
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and if you want a prototype for any possibility of that kind,
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any other time in our political history, this is it.
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The republican party, brand new--not six months old--
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Will elect 100 people to the house of representatives
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in the fall elections of 1854,