To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I believe the first Republican platform wanted to bring to an end the sins of polygamy and slavery.I am no scholar of Abraham Lincoln, but Jay Nordlinger's Impromptus column today has glowing reviews of a biography about the great man. He mentions slavery, but not polygamy. I am more familiar with Samuel Clemens satire about polygamy in the late 19th century.
48 posted on
07/12/2004 1:38:03 PM PDT by
annyokie
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To: annyokie
1856 - The new Republican party selected for its national platform a call to abolish the “Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy.” 47
Abraham Lincoln signed the first anti-polygamy law in, I think, 1862.
55 posted on
07/12/2004 1:54:38 PM PDT by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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