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NATIONAL CONVENTIONS

OF THE

Democratic and Republican

PARTIES.

From 1832 and 1856, Respectively.

Compiled and Edited by

HENRY H. SMITH,

Compiler and Author of the Digest and Manual of the H. of R., U. S.,”
and "Smith's Parliamentary History of Congress?"

CHICAGO:

THE J. M. W. JONES STATIONERY AND PRINTING COMPANY.

1892.

TEN GREAT EVENTS

CONCISE HISTORY OF ALL REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

Giving a Complete Record of All Proceedings from the Calling to Order to the Adjournment and the Candidates Who Were Placed in Nomination-Votes Cast for Each Candidate Whose Name Was Presented for the NominationVote by Which Each Was Nominated, and the Popular and Electoral Votes for all the Candidates for the Presidency Since the Republican Party Came into Existence--The Causes That Led to the Formation of the Republican Party Given.

Compiled and Edited by Henry H. Smith, Compiler and Author of the "Digest and Manual U. S. H. of R." and "The Parliamentary History of Congress."

[Copyrighted by the Author, 1892.]

It has been very well said that "all political parties that have exerted marked influence upon their times have had their beginnings far back of the period of their organization," and in continuation of this thought the same writer says: "The Republican party was the child of the conscience of the North, aroused at length to assertion by the growth of the institution of slavery. In its embryonic forms it existed almost from the beginning of the government. It did not gain strength and individuality, however, until more than half a century after the adoption of the federal constitution."

No history of the Republican party or its conventions, would be complete without at least a brief reference to the conventions of the "Abolition party of 1839," the "Liberty party of 1843," the "FreeSoil party of 1848"-its legitimate successor-both of which met in Buffalo, N. Y., and the "Free-Soil Democracy" which met at Pittsburgh, Pa.. August 11, 1852.

The "Abolition party" first met in convention at Warsaw, N. Y., November 13, 1839, and subsequently at Albany, April 1, 1840. It adopted a resolution at Warsaw, proposing the organization of a distinct and independent Abolition party, and nominated James G.