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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


78 posted on 07/11/2015 12:58:44 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Crim

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.


81 posted on 07/11/2015 1:01:23 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Crim

“The Republican party was the party of abolition...period.”

Well, in the Territories, anyway. But not in the states.


87 posted on 07/11/2015 1:13:53 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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