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Emphasize the economic positions of the Republican Party, especially the party’s platform planks on the tariff, building a transcontinental railroad, and passing a Homestead Act.
 

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 321, col. 1-4
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 322, col. 1
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 326, col. 3-4
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

June 23, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 2
Song: “Viva La Abe Lincoln.”

June 23, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 4, col. 5
Platform of the Republican Party.

July 14, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 2
Poem: “The Flat-Boat Excursion.”

July 21, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 6
“Republicanism in Kentucky” contrasts Chicago Platform with Henry Clay’s speeches in 1850.

September 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 1
“Campaign and Platform,” a poem.

September 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 2, col. 1-2
The Republican Party and the Protective Tariff.

September 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 2, col. 5
“Why do we support Abraham Lincoln?” The Minnesota Times.

September 8, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 1
Song: “Come and Vote with Me.”

September 8, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 1
Song: “Row Away, Breckinridge.”

September 15, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 3-4
A take-off on the Declaration of Independence in which the Republican Party separates from the Democratic Party.

October 27, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 1-6
Speech by Charles Leib, editor of The Rail Splitter, on Lincoln and Douglas.

 

     
 

 

 
     
 

 

 
     

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