By the beginning of the 1860 presidential election campaign , he had become part of the Republican Party , declaring that `` the spirit of abolition is the spirit of the Republican Party `` , and that the Republicans , considering slavery `` morally and politically wrong '' , opposed its spread as the first step in its complete abolition .
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