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We are just about in the same place that we were before the 'civil war'... the Whig Party had become non-functional and was replaced by the new Republican Party. The Republican Party adamantly opposed the Democrat Party and slavery ---
the result was a war between the states, division of families and thousands of deaths.
The Democrat Party survived.![](https://powderedwigsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/politicalgrave3.jpg)