Republicans, You Need To Learn Your Whole History
Yes, You Were The “Party Of Lincoln,” But You Changed
I received a reply to one of my stories where I was chided by a Trump supporter who informed me it was Republicans that ended slavery and, among other things, that “Trump wasn’t racist,” and neither were his supporters. While she had some things right, she’d been misled about others and missed the Party’s actions over the last hundred years. I always try to be helpful, so here’s a brief recap of the history of the Republican Party. Friends don’t let friends remain ignorant.
In the early 1850s, there was great turmoil within two major political parties of the day: the Democrats (at least the Northern ones) and the Whig Party. There were raucous arguments about enslavement, most of which concerned expanding slavery into new states as the country grew. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to become part of the United States while allowing enslavement but preventing it in the new state of Maine and any new states created from the Louisiana Purchase lands.
In 1854, The Missouri Compromise was dissolved by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It made it possible for formerly free states to adopt enslavement and gave any new state the right to offset free state California, which upset the delicate balance between free and…
