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Rise and Rise of the Republican Party 1854-60 in Pennsylvania
A detailed historical survey of the early Republican movement from its Indiana county origins to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia unions, tracing the 1855 platform against slavery, the 1856 state conventions, the 1860 national platform under Lincoln, and the party’s emergence amid sectional conflict, with notes on Know-Nothings and American party involvement and the rapid shift to Civil War mobilization. The piece notes key figures such as McClure, Fremont, Dayton, Wilmot, Hale, Butler, and Lincoln, and discusses the broader implications for liberty, union, and constitutional principles.
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Indiana County
United Front
Union
Congress
District of Columbia
Pittsburg
Pockard
Curtis
Pennsylvania
Willam Jessup
Alexander K. McClure
David Wilmot
John P. Hale
B. F. Butler
Henry Wilson
City Hall
A. K. McClure
Indiana ‘County
Indiana
North
South
Hiiberty
Free States
Missouri
Kansas
Sec. & of
Chhosen
Democratic Party
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Peoples’ Union
Philadelphia
United States
Presiente
Free Territory
Free State
Jefferson
Pacific Coast
John C. Fremont
Day‘ton
American Party
New York
Cal. Fremont
Wm. F. Johnston
Millard Filmore
A. J. Donaldson
Buchanan
Noth
Chicago
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Republican Party
Stephen A.douglass
Lincoln
Wm. H. Seward
Salmon P. Chase
Treasury
Fort Sumter
Charleston Harbor
Tincoln
Washington
Massachusetts 6Th Regiment
Baltimore