The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-16
| ? ARI'Y TORY
Summed Up in the Proceedings Of
the Twelve National Repub-
lican Conventions.
Col. Charles W. johnson Sponsor for
the Five Handsomely Bound
Volumes.

has received five handsomely bound vol
umes containing the stenographed pro-
.ceedings Of the twelve national republican
conventions which have been held during
the period s1S56-19O0. These volumes en-
body a history of the party from It's birth,
which is made concurrent with the organ
ization of the republican association in
Washington on June IS, 1855, which pro-
tested against the repeal of the Missouri
compromise as opening Kansas and Ne
braska to the Introduction of slavery.
.Phis association issued a circular to the
friends of the movement suggesting the
organization Of clubs, this leading to the
call for a national convention to be held
at Pittsburg, Feb. %, 1856. This was fol-
lowed by g. call for a nominating conven-
ton which was held at Philadelphia in
June, 1856. Other localities than Wash
ington claim the honor of the birth of the
republican party, as a number Of meet
ings were held in the free states to pro-
test against the Douglas bill, which pulled
down the barrier set up in 1920 and gave
slavery an equal chance with freedom
in territory excluded by the Missouri
compromise. It was this act Of perfidy
which brought the republican party into
being. It did not propose the abolition of
I slavery but its confinement within limits.
The western wings were more active in
| the organization of the new party because
the west was more directly assailed than
the east by opening the territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska to slavery. The new
party, defeated in its first contest for the
presidency, found its opportunity in 1860,
when the slave power fought its last bat
tie and losing it,, prepared for physical
| war, forcing the issue of slavery and
state rights on the country. The greatest
political organization known to American
history came into being to save the union
from destruction and incidentally it de-
stroyed slavery and the slave power
The proceedings at the conventions of
1856 and 1860 are of special interest. as
they aid the student to get at the heart
of the controversy of the period. At the
convention of 1864 the reverberation of the
thunders Of war deepened the patriotic
spirit and denomination Of Lincoln was a
foregone conclusion. The republican
party had answered the despairing cry
of the loyal nation and in the darkest
/ hour of the conflict for the union the faith
age to every heart. 81
/ The convention Of 1868 was notable, for
| it had to contemplate a new order of
things, adapt the laws and institutions to
that new order. Grant had been named
in the convention of 1864 by one delega-
ton alone, the union delegation from, Mis-
souri,. He came to the front. strongly IN
4 1858 and was nominated. Lincoln had
1 been removed by the monstrous crime OF
assassination which shook the nation, to
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