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Lincoln didn't break ground??
ok lets take the award winning guy...
As much as any man in the country, he was a founder of the Republican party. ..." Don E. Fehrenbacher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning authority on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, a documentary portrait through his speeches and writings, 1964
so, where is does he say that Lincoln was the founder of the rep party? That is not what he says, he himself even draws or delineates by virtue of his first sentence you posted here; "as much as any man" not the man or is the man.....John Fremont ran as a rep in 1856, the first to run for president btw under that banner btw. Lincoln didn't even break ground in that respect.
He gave over 50 speeches for Fremont's campaign, Lincoln was co-founder of the Republican party in Illinois - there was no national party...and in that first presidential campaign - Lincoln was first runner up for VP.
I think you should read this: 1856 - Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln biographer William E. Barton wrote: "There stood Lincoln in the forefront, erect, tall, and majestic in appearance, hurling thunderbolts at the foes of freedom, while the great convention roared its endorsement!
I never witnessed such a scene before or since. As he descried the aims and aggressions of the unappeasable slaveholders and the servility of their Northern allies as illustrated by the perfidous repeal of the Missouri Compromise two years previously, and their grasping after the rich prairies of Kansas and Nebraska, to blight them with slavery and to deprive free labor of this rich inheritance, and exhorted the friends of freedom to resist them to death, the convention went fairly wild. It paralleled or exceeded the scene in the Revolutionary Virginia convention of eight-one years before, when Patrick Henry invoked death if liberty could not be preserved, and said, 'After all we must fight.' Strange, too, that this same man received death a few years afterwards while conferring freedom on the slave race and preserving the American Union from dismemberment."6
According to young William H. Porter, "the tall man in black told us about the aims of the new party they were organizing that day. I'll say now that I learned more during that next hour and a half, about what was the best for the United States, than I'd learned in all my life before. (read it!)
But forget all that.I never witnessed such a scene before or since. As he descried the aims and aggressions of the unappeasable slaveholders and the servility of their Northern allies as illustrated by the perfidous repeal of the Missouri Compromise two years previously, and their grasping after the rich prairies of Kansas and Nebraska, to blight them with slavery and to deprive free labor of this rich inheritance, and exhorted the friends of freedom to resist them to death, the convention went fairly wild. It paralleled or exceeded the scene in the Revolutionary Virginia convention of eight-one years before, when Patrick Henry invoked death if liberty could not be preserved, and said, 'After all we must fight.' Strange, too, that this same man received death a few years afterwards while conferring freedom on the slave race and preserving the American Union from dismemberment."6
According to young William H. Porter, "the tall man in black told us about the aims of the new party they were organizing that day. I'll say now that I learned more during that next hour and a half, about what was the best for the United States, than I'd learned in all my life before. (read it!)
I think the Republican party henceforth should be known as the Party of Fremont.
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