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A Brief History of the Republican Party Rise in 1855 56
The piece traces the formation of the Republican Party in 1855, the DC association, and the February 1856 Pittsburgh convention. It covers the Philadelphia 1856 national convention, Fremont’s nomination, the party platform opposing slavery expansion, and early 1858 gains in New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Indiana. It notes the Dred Scott decision and its impact, plus ongoing North consolidation toward a two-party system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Association of
District of Columbia
Washington
Friends of the Republican Movement
United States
Pittsburgh
Maine
Vermon
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Wisconsin
Maryland
Virginia
Missouri
Kentucky
Greely
Lovejoy
Ilinois
John A. King
Francis P. Blair
Philadelphia
Kansas
E. D. Morgan
South
North
Robert T. Emmet
Free States
Delaware
Henry S. Lane
Emmet
Mr. Lane
Owen Lovejoy
Illinois
Henry Wilson
Caleb Smith
William H. Seward
Seward
Nom
William L. Dayton
New Jersey
Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel P. Banks
David Wilmot
Charles Sumner
Dayton
Jefferson
Tyler
Buchanan
Rhodes
New England
Emerson
Longfellow
Bryant
Fremont
George William Curtis
Washington Irving
Sumner
Europe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whittier
Fillmore
Connecticut
Iowa
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Taney
United States Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Scott
Free
Justice Taney
Congress
Minnesota
California
Republican Party