JUNE 16

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party A PERSONAL VOICE HORACE GREELEY “ [The Republicans have] the heart, the conscience and the under- standing of the people with them. . . . All that is noble, all that is true, all that is pure, all that is manly, and estimable in human char- acter, goes to swell the power of the anti-slavery party of the North. That party. . . . now embraces every Northern man who does not want to see the government converted into a huge engine for the spread of slavery over the whole continent, every man . . . opposed to . . . the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill.” REPUBLICAN PARTY In February 1854, at a school house in Ripon, Wisconsin, some discontented Northern Whigs held a meeting with antislavery Democrats and Free-Soilers to form a new political party. On July 6,the new Republican Party was formally organized in Jackson, Michigan. Among its founders was Horace Greeley. http://caggiasocialstudies.com/AHText/A3C10CAD.pdf