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Beginning of the Republican Party: their first Presidential Convention begins... "Bleeding Kansas...
Beginning of the Republican Party: their first Presidential Convention begins... "Bleeding Kansas...
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June 17, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 17, 1856
* Republican Party is born
* 1st convention in Philadelphia
* Bleeding Kansas - war on slavery
A very historic issue for the Republican party as it reports on their very first Presidential nominating convention, held in Philadelphia. Or rather, it reports on the events the day prior to the beginning of the meetings.
Page 5 has: "The People's Convention" with a dateline of Phila., June 16, and begins: "A large number of delegates to the Convention ion to be held to-morrow had arrived in town..." with much more. This is followed by: "State Of Feeling At Philadelphia" which begins: "The Republican National Convention will convent at 10 to-morrow morning. I have hear suggested as most likely to be pitched upon, the names of John A. King...Rufus P. Spalding..." with more. This article is followed by: "The Republican Convention" which begins: "The nomination of Fremont seems to be inevitable. The General conviction is that he is the man to beat...". John Fremont would become their choice. Further reports as well.
The newly created political party held the prohibition of slavery as the principal issue of their platform.
Page 5 also has a report: "Action of the Connecticut Baptist Convention on the Aggressions of Slavery". And there is also content on "Bleeding Kansas" with: "KANSAS - Another Invasion--More Law & Order--Osawattamie Sacked" which is quite lengthy. Also: "Proclamation by the Governor of the Territory of Kansas" "What Shall Be Done" "The Congressional Investigation" and more.
Complete in 8 pages, nice condition.
background: The first Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia in June 1856 to formally establish the Republican Party, which had formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery. The convention nominated John C. Frémont for president and William L. Dayton for vice president, promoting a platform that opposed slavery in the territories, condemned the violence in Kansas, and supported internal improvements. Although Frémont lost the election to Democrat James Buchanan, the Republicans carried 11 free states and gained significant national support, marking the rise of the party that would soon lead to Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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