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The Washington Union
Washington, District Of Columbia
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The Toronto Colonist offers a Canadian perspective on the decline of the US Republican Party, cautioning against building national organizations on narrow, sectional issues, comparing them to the Know-Nothings.
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The Toronto Colonist, alluding to the decline of the republican party in the United States, speaks thus: "The fate of the republicans is not without a moral by which Canadian partisans ought to profit. It is an illustration of a very old lesson, but one which is not seldom forgotten, to wit: that it is impossible to construct a national organization on narrow, sectional issues. The republican leaders started on a narrow basis, and discarded all attempts to render their issue subservient to broader ends. In their own way they were every whit as narrow as the know-nothings: and they are fast following their intolerant exemplars on the road to political extinction."
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United States
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decline of the republican party toward political extinction
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The Toronto Colonist alludes to the decline of the republican party in the United States, stating that their fate illustrates the impossibility of constructing a national organization on narrow, sectional issues, comparing republican leaders to the know-nothings and noting they are following them to political extinction, with a moral for Canadian partisans.