I’m a 46-year member of the Republican Party, nearly all my adult life. My father and my grandfather — Republicans. Family legend has it that way back in the 1850s, in the dangerous days of ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

the antislavery Republicans. Millard Fillmore, the American Party candidate in 1856, previously served as 13th president of the United States (1850-53). Before 1855, the Know-Nothings had no ...