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Excerpt from Life of Alphonso Taft
When the old Whig party went to pieces he readily grasped the necessity for a new organization to succeed it and he believed that the slavery question offered the basis and rally ing cry for the new party. Never a radical he seized upon the various phases of the anti-slavery issues that appealed most effectively to the common sense, sympathy, and intui tive justice of the people. As a delegate to the first National Republican Convention at Philadelphia, he was earnest, ao tive, and useful. It was he, with his friend Thomas Spooner of Cincinnati, that designated the keynote orator on that epoch-making occasion.
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