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- A History of the Republican Party
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151 totalBY - GEO. W. PLATT
Produced by Polyvios J. Simopoulos
PREFACE.
CHAPTER. PAGE I. Formative Causes …………………………………… 5 II. Ancient and Modern Slavery ………………………….. 11 III. Beginning of Slavery in the United States …………….. 22 IV. The Early Federal Government ………………………… 28 V. The Missouri Compromise …………………………….. 42 VI. The Abolitionists ………………………………….. 51 VII. Compromise of 1850 …………………………………. 59 VIII. Birth of the Republican Party ……………………….. 70 IX. First Republican National Convention …………………. 86 X. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates …………………………. 101 XI. Lincoln …………………………………………… 112 XII. Reconstruction and the National Debt …………………. 135 XIII. Grant …………………………………………….. 148 XIV. Hayes …………………………………………….. 170 XV. Garfield and Arthur ………………………………… 185 XVI. Blaine ……………………………………………. 201 XVII. Harrison ………………………………………….. 213 XVIII. Cleveland's Second Term …………………………….. 230 XIX. McKinley ………………………………………….. 244 XX. Roosevelt …………………………………………. 285 - LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. - CHAPTER I. - FORMATIVE CAUSES.
CHAPTER II. - ANCIENT AND MODERN SLAVERY.
CHAPTER III. - BEGINNING OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER IV. - THE EARLY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER V. - THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
CHAPTER VI. - THE ABOLITIONISTS.
Description
This work offers a clear‑cut look at how a fledgling political movement grew out of the fierce debates over slavery and territorial expansion in mid‑nineteenth‑century America. Drawing on speeches, platform statements, and contemporary accounts, the author traces the party’s birth in the turbulent years before the Civil War, showing how moral opposition to the spread of slavery fused with broader concerns about federal authority. Readers are introduced to the early figures and conventions that shaped the party’s identity, setting the stage for the pivotal Lincoln‑Douglas contests.
Beyond the origins, the narrative follows the party’s rapid rise to national power, detailing Lincoln’s election, the secession crisis, and the early years of Reconstruction. The account balances political analysis with vivid portraits of key leaders, giving a sense of the optimism and challenges that defined the Republican experiment in its first decades. It remains an accessible guide for anyone curious about the forces that forged modern American politics.
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~9 hours (551K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2011-10-12
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
George Washington Platt
b. 1875
Best known for a sweeping early-20th-century history of the Republican Party, this little-documented American writer captured the party's rise while many of its defining events were still within living memory.
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