New Party Quotes



This was the first of the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates. The men were contesting for the U. S. Senate. Douglas won the election. Lincoln was one of the new Republicans, a third party that had been formed by appealing to people who had been dissatisfied with either of the two major parties—the Whigs and the Democrats—and joined the new Party. Neither of the two traditional parties could just cope with .the national polarization caused by the slavery issue. They had “kicked the can down the road” until there was violence breaking out in Kansas and elsewhere.


The para-military Minutemen were an ultra-right wing, armed, militant group whose members have been convicted of crimes of violence and illegal weapons possession. On July 4, 1966 Minutemen leaders formed a political party—the Patriotic Party: