PoliticalChic
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March 20 The organization formed for the specific purpose of ending slavery....and that meant fighting the Democrat Party, the nation's oldest racist organization.
On March 5. 1854 At meeting at the Little White Schoolhouse, Alan Bovay proposes the name “Republican Party.” Evidence indicates there were several groups across the country that met to discuss the formation of a new party. Thus, the location of the first meeting has been disputed. It is known that Whig Party defectors met privately in February, 1854, in Crawfordsville, Iowa, to call for the creation of a new political party.
Some evidence indicates an earlier meeting was held in Exeter, New Hampshire. The first public meeting was held in March of 1854 at a small church in Ripon, Wisconsin, when Alan Bovay rallied anti-slavery forces and adopted resolutions opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A second meeting was held in a one-story schoolhouse in Ripon on March 20, 1854. Fifty-four citizens, including three women, dissolved their local committees and chose five men to serve as the committee of the new party: Alan Bovay, Jebediah Bowen, Amos Loper, Abram Thomas, and Jacob Woodruff. Said Mr. Bovay: "We went into the little meeting Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out Republicans and...were the first Republicans in the Union."
On March 20th, 1854....A group of people met in a small white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin to protest the opening of Nebraska and Kansas territories to slavery. Disgusted with the failure of the current political parties and congress to uphold the cause of freedom in the West, they formed a new anti-slavery party and called it the Republican Party. “We went in Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats, and came out Republicans.” Horace Greeley gave publicity to the new party.
BTW....on March 20, 1865, A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC.
This Democrat succeeded in his next attempt.
Need I mention that every presidential assassin in the history of the nation has been a liberal- or has not been associated with a political outlook- none were right-wingers.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican elected to the presidency.
Know who was the first Republican to run?
Know what state he represented?
On March 5. 1854 At meeting at the Little White Schoolhouse, Alan Bovay proposes the name “Republican Party.” Evidence indicates there were several groups across the country that met to discuss the formation of a new party. Thus, the location of the first meeting has been disputed. It is known that Whig Party defectors met privately in February, 1854, in Crawfordsville, Iowa, to call for the creation of a new political party.
Some evidence indicates an earlier meeting was held in Exeter, New Hampshire. The first public meeting was held in March of 1854 at a small church in Ripon, Wisconsin, when Alan Bovay rallied anti-slavery forces and adopted resolutions opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A second meeting was held in a one-story schoolhouse in Ripon on March 20, 1854. Fifty-four citizens, including three women, dissolved their local committees and chose five men to serve as the committee of the new party: Alan Bovay, Jebediah Bowen, Amos Loper, Abram Thomas, and Jacob Woodruff. Said Mr. Bovay: "We went into the little meeting Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out Republicans and...were the first Republicans in the Union."
On March 20th, 1854....A group of people met in a small white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin to protest the opening of Nebraska and Kansas territories to slavery. Disgusted with the failure of the current political parties and congress to uphold the cause of freedom in the West, they formed a new anti-slavery party and called it the Republican Party. “We went in Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats, and came out Republicans.” Horace Greeley gave publicity to the new party.
BTW....on March 20, 1865, A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC.
This Democrat succeeded in his next attempt.
Need I mention that every presidential assassin in the history of the nation has been a liberal- or has not been associated with a political outlook- none were right-wingers.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican elected to the presidency.
Know who was the first Republican to run?
Know what state he represented?
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