and its relations to the Republican Party and to the country at large. While admitting that Slavery, as it existed in the Southern States, was not a barbarous institution, but was destined under ...

Senator SEWARD, in his speech on Friday night, declared the whole aim and duty of the Republican Party to be, to leave Slavery just where it is. They do not seek to abolish or disturb it ...

Just how witless is his notion that the Civil War was justly avoidable? In 1860 Lincoln and the Republican Party had pledged to prohibit slavery in all states newly admitted to the Union.

There are 55 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United States as he defeated ...

With the world's oldest democracy voting to elect its 47th President, let us take a quick trip down American history to ...

November 6, Abraham Lincoln wins presidency By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2024. There ...

And since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is older, officially founded in 1844 but with origins in President Andrew Jackson's ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.