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Rise of the Indiana Republican Party 1854 1860
Indiana Republicans rally around a Philadelphia platform backed by George W Julian while factions within the state Democratic party clash over Lecompton and Kansas policy. The 1858 Indiana Republican convention selects a Wheed ticket of former Whigs led by Oliver P Morton and George W Julian to oppose Lecompton slavery expansion amid debates over popular sovereignty and national platforms.
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Republican Party
Indiana
Demosyatic Party
Jake Asuin
Qwonglas
A. P. Willard
Coude
W. O S. Feelman
Dear
Cincinnati
Dred Scott
Bright
Fitch
United States
Republcan
James Buchanan
Douglas
Lew Wallace
Willard
John
Jones
Democratic Party
Nathaniel Cunningham
Vigo County
New Albany Ledger
Logansport
Democratic
Phares
Lecompton
Washington
Indianapolis
Treas
Kansas
Cenacrats
Kansas-Nebraska
Wabash and Erie Canal
Meoney
Sentinel
Northwest
Chicago
The
Evansville Enquirer
Buchanan
John L. Robinson
Horace Greely
Republican State Central Committee
R. W. Thompsons
Greggs
Boone County
Ledger
Philadelphia
Bright and Fitch
United States Senate
New Albany Weekly Ledger
Oliver P. Morton
Supreme Court of the United States
George W. Julian
Marton
State Central Committee
C. D. Murray
Hielscher
Committee On Resolutions
Morton
Supreme Judges
Horace P. Biddle
Cass
A. W. Hendricks
Jefferson
Simeon Yandes
Marion
William D. Griswold
Vigo
W. T. Otto
Floyd
John H. Harper
St. Joseph
Albert Lange
W. A. Peele
Randolph
John Young
Miami County Sentinel
Congress
Julian
Judge Ott
Lange
Young
M. C. Garber
United States of America
Lhe
George Greater
Sullivan
France
Teuton
U. S
Grayson M. P. Murphy
American Red Cross