[GOPcapitalist]

The slogan I'm referring to is for Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate. He lost.

That's the point. The party changed when the figured out they couldn't win on an anti-slavery ticket. So instead the rewrote the platform, took out the heavy stuff on slavery and replaced them with pledges of welfare handouts, government spending, federalized banking, and higher taxes.

[cmurphy]

The slogan I'm referring to is for Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate. He lost.

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That's the point. The party changed when the figured out they couldn't win on an anti-slavery ticket. So instead the rewrote the platform, took out the heavy stuff on slavery and replaced them with pledges of welfare handouts, government spending, federalized banking, and higher taxes.

That doesn't change the fact that their drive was to end slavery.