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There were Republican meetings in various states but the one in Ripon, Wisconsin was the most famous. Salmon P. Chase coined the party slogan: "Free labor, free land, free men."
1 posted on 03/21/2017 4:34:56 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

....and Trump was linked to Russia


2 posted on 03/21/2017 4:39:37 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: iowamark; Diana in Wisconsin
Happy Birthday 😊🎂
3 posted on 03/21/2017 4:44:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: iowamark

Democrats assassinated the first republican president and impeached his vice president.

Dwell on that.


4 posted on 03/21/2017 5:00:51 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: iowamark

Note the platform of the first Republican Party political convention in 1856:

http://www.ushistory.org/gop/convention_1856republicanplatform.htm

...we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislation, of any individual, or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained.

Resolved: That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign powers over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery...

...Resolved, That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean by the most central and practicable route is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country, and that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and as an auxiliary thereto, to the immediate construction of an emigrant road on the line of the railroad...


5 posted on 03/21/2017 5:43:44 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: iowamark

We need to repeat this without ceasing: the Democrat Party was created bt Martin Van Buren to protect and perpetuate slavery.

The Republican Party was founded to end it.


6 posted on 03/21/2017 6:16:54 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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