Abraham Lincoln wasn't a republican according to Google

You have got to me shittin me.

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National Union Party was the temporary name the Republicans used for the national ticket in the 1864 election...

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Good catch.

There's a statue somewhere saying he was a dimocrap. When the folks were called on it they refused to take it down.

Statue of Lincoln in Edinburgh

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 19, 1863.

To the Working-men of Manchester:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the address and resolutions which you sent me on the eve of the new year. When I came, on the 4th of March, 1861, through a free and constitutional election to preside in the Government of the United States, the country was found at the verge of civil war. Whatever might have been the cause, or whosesoever the fault, one duty, paramount to all others, was_ before me, namely, to maintain and preserve at once the Constitution and the integrity of the Federal Republic. A conscientious purpose to perform this duty is the key to all the measures of administration which have been and to all which will hereafter be pursued. Under our frame of government and my official oath, I could not depart from this purpose if I would. It is not always in the power of governments to enlarge or restrict the scope of moral results which follow the policies that they may deem it necessary for the public safety from time to time to adopt.

I have understood well that the duty of self-preservation rests solely with the American people; but I have at the same time been aware that favor or disfavor of foreign nations might have a material influence in enlarging or prolonging the struggle with disloyal men in which the country is engaged. A fair examination of history has served to authorize a belief that the past actions and influences of the United States were generally regarded as having been beneficial toward mankind. I have, therefore, reckoned upon the forbearance of nations.

Circumstances -to some of which you kindly allude - induce me especially to expect that if justice and good faith should be practised by the United States, they would encounter no hostile influence on the part of Great Britain. It is now a pleasant duty to acknowledge the demonstration you have given of your desire that a spirit of amity and peace toward this country may prevail in the councils of your Queen, who is respected and esteemed in your own country only more than she is by the kindred nation which has its home on this side of the Atlantic.

I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the working-men of Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis. It has been often and studiously represented that the attempt to overthrow this government, which was built upon the foundation of human rights, and to substitute for it one which should rest exclusively on the basis of human slavery, was likely to obtain the favor of Europe. Through the action of our disloyal citizens, the working- men of Europe have been subjected to severe trials, for the purpose of forcing their sanction to that attempt. Under the circumstances, I cannot but regard your decisive utterances upon the question as an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country. It is indeed an energetic and re-inspiring assurance of the inherent power of truth, and of the ultimate and universal triumph of justice, humanity, and freedom. I do not doubt that the sentiments you have expressed will be sustained by your great nation; and, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and the most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people. I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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Anyone who wants to understand the nation's history needs to know how the Republican and Democratic parties flipped ends on the political spectrum.

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Never stops being a bald faced lie

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Anyone who wants to understand the nation's history needs to know how the Republican and Democratic parties flipped ends on the political spectrum.

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WhiskeyPapa

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You've been indoctrinated and did not really research history.

You're simply ball-gobbling your liberal overlords.

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Anyone who wants to understand the nation's history needs to know how the Republican and Democratic parties flipped ends on the political spectrum.

Never stops being a bald faced lie

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In 1860 the Democratic Party split north and south on the issue of slavery.

"Urged by Yancey, the delegations from seven Deep South states (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Florida) met in a separate caucus before the convention. They reached a tentative consensus to "stop Douglas" by imposing a pro-slavery party platform which he could not run on if nominated.[2]
The “Fire-eater” majority on the convention's platform committee, chaired by William Waightstill Avery of North Carolina, produced an explicitly pro-slavery document, endorsing Dred Scott and Congressional legislation protecting slavery in the territories. Northern Democrats refused to acquiesce. Dred Scott was extremely unpopular in the North, and the Northerners said they could not carry a single state with that platform. On 30 April, the convention by a vote of 165 to 138 adopted the minority (Northern) platform, which omitted these planks. 50 Southern delegates then left the convention in protest,[1] including the Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas delegations, three of the four delegates from Arkansas, and one of the three delegates from Delaware."

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But it was largely the Democratic Party in the 1930's that fought for the 40 hour work week, a minimum wage, child labor laws and the rest of FDR's New Deal. With Democratic majorities the Congress Passed the GI Bill of Rights in 1944. It was the GI Bill of Rights that did as much as anything to make the modern United States.







FDR signing the GI Bill of Rights

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WhiskeyPapa

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Are you referencing the same FDR that forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans because of post Pearl Harbor hysteria? THAT FDR?

The Democratic Party is "willing to help" indeed.

This propaganda piece, er...drawing.... with the Bernie head in the lower right corner.

Ha. I didn't notice that.