Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ch both parties had up to that time en-dorsed and approved, there had been nodivision in this country in regard to thatprinciple except the opposition of the abo-litionists. In the House of Representa-tives of the Illinois legislature, upon aresolution asserting that principle, everyWhig and every Democrat in the Housevoted in the affirmative, and only fourmen voted against it, and those four wereold-line abolitionists. In 1854 Mr. Abraham Lincoln and Trumbull entered in
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ch both parties had up to that time en-dorsed and approved, there had been nodivision in this country in regard to thatprinciple except the opposition of the abo-litionists. In the House of Representa-tives of the Illinois legislature, upon aresolution asserting that principle, everyWhig and every Democrat in the Housevoted in the affirmative, and only fourmen voted against it, and those four wereold-line abolitionists. In 1854 Mr. Abraham Lincoln and Trumbull entered into an arrange-ment, one with the other, and each withhis respective friends, to dissolve the oldWhig party on the one hand, and to dis-solve the old Democratic party on theother, and to connect the members ofboth into an abolition party, under thename and disguise of a Republican terms of that arrangement betweenLincoln and Trumbull have been pub-lished by Lincolns special friend, JamesH. Matheny, Esq.; and they were thatLincoln should have General Shieldssplace in the United States Senate, which 143. MONUMENT TO STEPHEN A. DOUOLAa DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD son Lovejoy, who were ready to receive sitions; and yet I venture to say thatthem and christen them in their new you cannot get Mr. Lincoln to come outfaith. They laid down on that occasion and say that he is now in favor of each one a platform for their new Republican party, of them. That these propositions, one and which was thus to be constructed. I have all, constitute the platform of the Blackthe resolutions of the State convention Republican party of this day, I have no then held, which was the first mass State doubt; and, when you were not aware for convention ever held in Illinois by the what purpose I was reading them, your Black Republican party; and I now hold Black Republicans cheered them as good them in my hands and will read a part Black Republican doctrines. My object of them, and cause the others to
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