Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The difference between the Republican and the Democratic parties on the leading issue of this contest is, that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latter do not consider it either a moral, social or political wrong; and the action of each…is squared to meet these views.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Speech, Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11, 1858
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While this became a common let wing view starting in the 1960s, few of those espousing it realized that Debs was raising the same problem over 50 years earlier.
The stranglehold that the Southern Democrats had held on civil rights legislation had been broken in 1968 by Lyndon Johnson and the other Democrats with key support from some liberal Republicans like Lindsay. However, the South felt politically betrayed. The Republican leadership, in what was one of the most brilliant political strategies in American history, played to the disaffected racist Southerners and welcomed into their party. Within the next 30 years virtually the entire South had gone Republican, and the Republican captured both houses of Congress and the Presidency with the South solidly Republican. At the time, Lindsay and some Republican leaders criticized bitterly about the party pandering to the worst racist elements of the nation. The “Party of Lincoln” had become the party of the segregationists, the racists, the hate groups of the country.
After he went to West Point, Eisenhower was very non-political until Republican leaders invited him to run for the Presidency as a Republican.
On March 20, 1854 a group of disaffected politicians met in a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin:. It was the birth of the Republican party.
On supporting a Black third-party candidate for Mayor of Chicago, while ignoring the regular Democratic nominee, Richard M. Daley:
Johnson was then Minority Leader of the Senate. This was a brilliant statement describing the different factions of the Republican Party which at that time were rarely in agreement.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
