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Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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- At a Republican meeting in 1860 John Hanks and another old pioneer appeared carrying fence rails labeled: "Two rails from a lot made by Abraham Lincoln and John Hanks in the Sangamon Bottom in the year 1830."
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- "made over fifty speeches" in the campaign for Fremont; prominently mentioned in the Republican national convention for the vice-presidential nomination...The rest of the story is familiar enough.
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- In the fall of 1854, hungering for the Senatorial nomination and fearing to offend numerous old-line Whigs in Illinois, he fled from Springfield on Herndon's advice to avoid attending a Republican state convention there.
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- But some time during his eighteenth or nineteenth year Abraham went through a political conversion, became a National Republican, and cast his first vote, in 1832, for Henry Clay.
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- The National Republican (later Whig) Party was the party of internal improvements, stable currency, and conservative banking; Lincoln lived in a country that needed all three.
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- With one exception, John Hanks, who turned Republican in 1860, Abraham was the only member of the Lincoln or Hanks families who deserted the Democratic Party.
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- In a letter written in 1858, discussing the growth of the Republican Party, he observed: "Much of the plain old Democracy is with us, while nearly all the old exclusive silk-stocking Whiggery is against us."
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- In 1860, when Lincoln was stumping about the country before the Republican convention, he turned up at New Haven, where shoemakers were on strike.
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- The Democrats had charged Republican agitators with responsibility for the strike, and Lincoln met them head-on: ....I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails in New England under which laborers can strike when they want to, where they are not obliged to work under all circumstances, and are not tied down and obliged to labor whether you pay them or not!
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- The Republican Party, built on opposition to the extension of slavery, began to emerge in small communities in the Northwest.
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- He had now struck the core of the Republican problem in the Northwest: how to.
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- Again and again the Republican press of the Northwest referred to the Republican Party as the "White Man's Party."
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- Again and again the Republican press of the Northwest referred to the Republican Party as the "White Man's Party."
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- The motto of the leading Republican paper of Missouri, Frank Blair's 6 The Illinois constitutional convention of 1847 had adopted and submitted to a popular referendum a provision that instructed the legislature to pass laws prohibiting the immigration of colored persons.
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- Nothing could be more devastating to the contention that the early Republican Party in the Northwest was built upon moral principle.
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- The full possibilities of this line first became clear in Lincoln's "lost" Bloomington speech, delivered at a Republican state convention in May 1856.
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- Here was the answer to the Republican problem.
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- He once declared in Kansas that preventing slavery from becoming a nation-wide institution "is the purpose of this organization [the Republican Party]."
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- In the ensuing elections the Republican candidates carried a majority of the voters and elected their state officers for the first time.
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- What he had done was to pick out an issue—the alleged plan to extend slavery, the alleged danger that it would spread throughout the nation—which would turn attention from the disintegrating forces in the Republican Party to the great integrating force.
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- Never much troubled about the Negro, he had always been most deeply interested in the fate of free republicanism and its bearing upon the welfare of the common white man with whom he identified himself.†
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- When Lincoln debated Douglas at Galesburg, Republican supporters carried a huge banner reading: "Small Fisted Farmers, Mud-sills of Society, Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln."
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- It was now too late to restore the Union by compromise, because the Republican leaders, with his advice and consent, had rejected compromise in December.
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- Always a good party man, Lincoln feared the Republican Party would disintegrate if it sacrificed the one principle its variegated supporters held in common.
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- Then there was his superb formulation of an everlasting problem of republican politics: "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
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- Calculating Republican leaders pointed out that to win the war without destroying the slave-owning class would only bring back the rebel States into full fellowship as members of the Union, with their full delegations in both Houses of Congress.
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- Republicans and Republican principles will be in the minority under law, and this latter state would be worse than the former—worse than war itself.
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- He had, reported Charles Francis Adams, Jr., "a mild, dreamy, meditative eye, which one would scarcely expect to see in a successful chief magistrate in these days of the republic†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.