'Liberty at Stake' tells the story of Joshua Glover and the connection to the groundbreaking gathering of Republicans in Ripon, Wisconsin.
The one issue all of the GOP could agree on: Abolishing slavery“Liberty at Stake” tells the story of Joshua Glover and the connection to the groundbreaking gathering of Republicans in Ripon, Wisconsin. The mini-documentary will be featured at the RNC Film Festival in the Miller High Life Theatre on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Word spread through Racine. A telegram was sent to the editor of the Wisconsin Freeman and Wisconsin Free Democrat newspapers at the time. Side note: The Waukesha Freeman, which was founded in that same era, still serves the county I live in today. It, too, was founded on anti-slavery and pro-abolitionist views.
In 1854, newspaper editors around the state wrote in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska legislation. They opposed slavery and fought hard to keep it from expanding into the territories. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, “A convention to organize the new party was held in Madison, Wisconsin in July of 1854. The members resolved, ‘That we accept this issue, forced upon us by the slave power, and in the defense of freedom will cooperate and be known as Republicans.’” They went on to note that the “Wisconsin Republican Party was dominated by former Whigs. They played down their backgrounds to concentrate solely on the issue of slavery.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the Republican nominee for president. He was the first Republican to hold that office. His leadership held the country together through the Civil War, freed the slaves in the rebellious states through the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Republicans in Congress to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution that freed former slaves, gave them property rights and allowed them to vote.
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