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and as the man who had calumniated the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. （Mr. Holcombe gave Mr. Seward a raking broadside, and the disposition among the listeners to applaud seemed almost "irrepressible" His language was the reality of eloquent sarcasm.) The question of party was not considered. He contended that when parties became sectional, their antagonism was like the antagonism of countries entirely foreign to each other. He quoted from the writings of President Madison. （No. 10,) in regard to factious combinations of a majority, and showing the security necessary to resist them. In the early history of the country, (he went on to say,) we did enjoy adequate security, but a great party had now been formed on the cohesive principle of hostility to slavery, sufficient to overpower all the checks and balances of the Constitution. In the free States, every party consideration had been merged in this principle, and the people supported men for office wh