Republicans got rid of slavery????? How do you define slavery?
Jefferson Davis- (D): "Before the war,
he operated a large cotton plantation in Mississippi and owned more than 100 slaves. After the war had ended, he remained
a proud apologist for the cause of slavery for which he and the Confederacy had fought."
Abraham Lincoln - (R): "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States,
shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." Lincoln did not have the power to declare state law unconstitutional, but used his war powers to enact the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln later turned his attention to adoption of the 13th amendment, outlawing slavery: "Lincoln argued that emancipation would so undermine the morale of the Confederacy that it would weaken their military and bring about a swift end to the war. The President
undertook his own campaign for passage of the [13th] amendment, and his political allies and cabinet members helped to further the cause, convincing constituents and state legislatures to appeal directly to their congressmen for passage of the amendment."
13th Amendment: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"Though for many the question of slavery had become moral and ideological, it was also political, and in March 1864, in the early lead-up to the presidential election, Representatives James Wilson of Iowa and Isaac Arnold of Illinois offered a speech lauding the recent proposal and tying the measure directly to Lincoln’s re-election. The amendment, said Arnold,
would distinguish the Republicans from the southern “slave kings.” Democrats, said Wilson, were working solely “in the interests of slavery.”
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/...as-constitutional-radical-the-13th-amendment/
******* ignoramus.