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.
Republican platform of 1856.
http://www.ushistory.org/gop/convention_1856republicanplatform.htm
The Republican party was the party of abolition...period.
You are going to have to be a bit more blunt and a lot less subtle if you are going to get your point across. Your message doesn’t look like it’s responding to anything I wrote.
“The Republican party was the party of abolition...period.”
Well, in the Territories, anyway. But not in the states.