Posted on 03/20/2023 1:16:12 AM PDT by Libloather
The Republican Party, forged from of a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854.
"The Republican Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into Western territory by popular sovereignty," writes PBS American Experience in its history of political parties in the United States.
"'Anti-Nebraska' men included anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, Free Soilers, reformers, and abolitionists."
Alvin Earle Bovay, an attorney and co-founder of Ripon College, was incensed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in the Senate in March and led a meeting at the town's Congregational Church.
"This group, considering possible passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill then being debated in Congress, resolved that steps should be taken to form a new Republican Party to appeal to all those who opposed slavery in the territories," writes the Wisconsin Historical Society.
"Cries of ‘Repeal! Repeal!’ resounded throughout the nation, following the Ripon, Wisconsin meeting of March 20, 1854 in demonstration against the ‘Kansas-Nebraska Swindle,’" The Jefferson Banner of Jefferson Co., Wisconsin wrote years later of the transformative moment in American political history.
Bovay was reportedly the first to call the assembly the "Republican" party.
His moniker found a powerful ally in influential newspaper publisher Horace Greeley.
"We should not care much whether those thus united against slavery were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else," Greeley wrote in his New-York Tribune in June 1854.
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This is exactly why they want to rewrite our history. The demonrats are the most hateful and destructive to our Republic.
I would be all for forming a NEW Republican party that is re-dedicated to focusing on the constitution of the republic and against any form of family-destroying wokism, progressivism, socialism agendas and is also vehemently against globalism and will fight for USA sovereignty on ALL geopolitical levels, and secure borders. The world needs a strong America! And anyone who dreams of becoming an American citizen LEGALLY wants a strong America as well lest it become like the shthole country that they are trying to escape.
MAGA-Dittos
Rats — the enemy of Blacks, Whites, and every shade between
GOP created - 1854
Unifying Principle - Anti-Slavery
Mission Accomplished - 1865
160 Years Later - Still searching for a new unifying principle
I disagree.
70%-75% of new naturalized citizens vote for the Democratic Party.
Because of massive legal immigration, the Republican Party has no hope of winning a national Popular Vote.
The GOP can only win the White House by scraping together a tiny majority of Electoral Votes.
The GOP can only win the Congress with tiny fragile majorities in both Houses.
Which is why I insist on calling it the First Democrat-Republican War. It certainly looks like we are on the way to the sequel.
And after we kicked dim-0 asses and forced them to free the slaves, did we give them 40 acres and a mule? NO, we gave them the liberty to go out and make their own way just like every other race, and guess what? THAT is the exact same thing as we do now.
And what did dim-0s give them? Collard greens and chittlins and share cropper shacks. KKK to make certain that the freed slaves could not participate in America. UNTIL the 1960s, 100 years later, when Republicans took over the South politically and freed the slaves yet AGAIN!!
No good deed goes unpunished...
Become a committeeman/delegate and work from within. The framework is there. That’s what I am doing.
“GOP created - 1854”
And by 1864 Lincoln had left the Republican Party.
Look it up.
And blacks are STILL willing slaves to the democrats...
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