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The result was electrifying. The anti-slavery Whigs felt that the party had not gone far enough to resist the expansion of slavery, and they eventually coalesced into the Republican Party.

The Republican Party was launched in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Here's a look at how it happened and why.

The 19th-century Whigs present an appealing prototype for moderate Democrats seeking a way out of their paralysis and for Republicans impatient with, or horrified by, the Trump ascendancy.

By contrast, the Whig Party believed that national progress should come through expansion over time — focusing on internal economic development rather than territorial expansion.

The collapse of the Whig Party, a collapse foreshadowed at the Whig convention in Syracuse in 1850, paved the way for the emergence of the new Republican Party.

The Boston Courier publishes the following letter from Mr. FILLMORE, addressed to the author of the History of the Whig Party: BUFFALO, April 30, 1860. R. MCKINLEY ORMSBY, Esq. SIR: Many ...

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