(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) REPUBLICAN PARTY National Platform o

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) REPUBLICAN PARTY. National Platform of the Know Something Party. Small broadside, 9 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; left margin trimmed. Cleveland: A. Crawford Greene, 14 June 1855

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"As servility to the Slave Power characterizes the national organizations of the existing political parties, and as this servility is perilous to the manhood of the North and the Liberty of the Republic, We Declare--" An early piece anticipating the creation of the Republican Party in the highly charged atmosphere of the last few years of the 1850s. "Border Ruffian" violence had already begun in Kansas, and within a year the state would erupt in virtual warfare over the slavery question.