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we'll solve it--popular democracy.
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The Whigs ran Zachary Taylor,
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the war hero of the Mexican War,
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old rough and ready;
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the problem was he was a Louisiana slaveholder.
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And out of this furor over the expansion of slavery in the West
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came two new political offshoots.
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One was called the Conscience Whigs.
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They were created first in Massachusetts
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and they gave us Charles Sumner, among others;
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a group of abolitionist Whigs
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who broke with the Whig party now and would never go back,