[Perseverando]

Anti-slavery citizens met in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, February 28, 1854, to form what would become the Republican Party.

On July 6, 1854, the first Republican State Convention was held in Jackson, Michigan.

The new Republican Party was against slavery.

The chief plank of the original Republican Party platform was:

"... to prohibit ... those twin relics of barbarism:
polygamy and SLAVERY."

[xp38]

This history needs to be rammed into the thick skulls of the American electorate. Repeated night and day until they get it.

[Bob434]

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