The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-13
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the same vew and also it had taken over fac
ton of the New York Democrats called the Barn
burners because their extreme views were COM
pared to the policy of man who burned down
his barn to get rid of the rats The Free Sellers
hung wide their motto, Free Soil Free Speech
Free Labor and Freemen"
10 the growing new party of the Republicans
came many kinds of political faiths who had the
common bond of opposition to slavery-all Anti
Nebraska or Kansas men, Some had been Wings.
some Democrats. others had turned from such
short-lved organizations as the Free Sellers and
the Know Nothings. An Informal convention
winch might better be called an organizing com
mlttee, was held in Pittsburgh early in 1856. at
which the name Republican as the title of a ma.
tional party was firmly fixed Among those pres.
ent at this convention were Horace Greeley and
Abraham lincoln
The campaign of 1856 the first one in which
the Republican party officially participated and,
incidentally, suffered its first defeat is described
IN the volume Builders of the Republic" in the
Yale University Press pageant of America as
follows:
Meeting in convention in Philadelphia in Feb
ruary, 1856, the Know Nothings or the American
party found sectonalism ntruding even into their
debate m of
the antlslavery delegates withdrew leaving the
southern wing in control With platform that a+
tempted 70 divert attention from the slavery question
py Crying up the foreign peril the party went
INTO the campaign with Fillmore and Donaldson as
its candidates ~ =
The Democrats tried hard to present an annaar
ahce OF harmony. Since the doctrine of popular
sovereignty TO be their major plank If was
expected that either the Little Giant or Pierce
would be the nominee. But the North so onposed
the proceedings in Kansas that the leaders were
passed over by man less closely connected with
recent domestic events AS minister to England
lanes Huchanan had been abroad during the most
trying times. His availability was enhanced he
cause his name was linked with that aggressive
foreign policy which had been EMPLOYED To dietroct
.,e country from internal troubles. Acceptable TO
the South, he could be supported also by tbe CON
serVatlve elements Of the North.
,. me wing party practically defunct, contented
i1seli with ndorsing the candidates of the Amer
lcan party. There was thus need for party which
Mo w. STAND four-square against the Democrats and
the extension of slavery. This need was filed h,
the Republican party which had grown with sur
prlsing rapidly since 1854 To it had thronped :
miscellany of malcontents a fact of Will ~
rivals made the most. In spite of its heterogenet,
,ne party showed remarkable solidarity Assem-.
ping IN Philadelphia on the anniversary of Bunker
i1lll, the delegates, passing over the more prom.
n ~ leaders-such as Chase Of Ohio, and Seward
OF New York-selected John Fremont Of ral
norma, young man little known in politics bui
Win Well-advertised record as an explorer of
the Far West. The platform vigorously denounced
the prOslavery and jngoistc activity of recent
years. ~
The Republicans launched campaian +bat g. |
vlgor and spectacle resembled that of 1870 Win
Bleedng Kansas" as their cry they appealed |
through the agency of newspaper editors such as |
horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune James
Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald Henry
j. a. raymond, of the New York Times, and Cen j I
watson Webb, OF the Courier and Enquirer of New
YORK, TO the Northerners' dread lest the "Bneban
eers' expand their domain Of slavery. The oppo.
sltlon played upon the widespread dislike for ~.
Abolitonists a of dscrediting the Re-
publlcans. The eccentric personalities Of tba 20
formers, their extravagant acts and still more ~
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