The eighth president of the United States, the so-called little magician, saw political parties as the key to achieving power ...

The Republican Party was created in 1854 out of a coalition ... attempt at the presidential election in 1856, its success in ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

And since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is older, officially founded in 1844 but with origins in President Andrew Jackson's ...

The leaders of the Democracy believe, or affect to believe, that the triumph of the Republican Party in the elections of to-morrow will be followed by the dissolution of the American Union.

Meanwhile, the newly formed Republican party, whose members were strongly ... The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single ...