Excerpt from The Genesis of the Republican Party Constitutional Aspects of Slavery and the Attitude of the Republican Party thereto. A completed house implies many pre liminary steps. It may, in certain aspects. Be taken as an indication of the habits of its owner, of his capacity for business, or of his industry, and of his economy, and his thrift in disposing of the fruits of his industry. It implies a struggle for means, a desire for a home, a design, a plan, a contract. On the par: of the contractor it implies the requisite skill, the needed excavations; then the walls and roof. Not until these last named are reared to their places have the labors and ideas of the house holder taken such shape and form be fore the world as to admit of an intel ligent judgment on their merits. The form and outline of the Republican house were fully completed and first ex posed to the country only in the year 1856. It is my purpose to recall, and to present to the attention of the reader, in as concise terms as possible, the several political events and conditions which culminated in the erection of the Re publican house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.