AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE UNI

TED STATES, FROM ITS ORIGIN IN 1796 TO ITS DISSOLUTION IN 1832; OF

THE WHIG AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES DURING THE INTERREGNUM;
AND OF ITS RE-FORMATION IN 1856, TO DEFEND FREEDOM

OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS AND TO RESIST THE AG-
GRESSIONS OF THE SLAVE POWER.

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS

OF

FREMONT AND DAYTON.

BY BENJAMIN F. HALL.

I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just.

JEFFERSON.

NEW YORK AND AUBURN:

MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN.

New York: 25 Park Row-Anburn: 107 Geneseo-st.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred

and fifty-six,

BY MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.

AUBURN:

MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,

STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.