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CHICAGO, June 3 (by Associated
Press).—In assembling at Chicago the
Republican national convention is
sitting in the section where the Re
publican party was first named and
within 200 miles of where the first re
corded Republican meeting was held
sixty-six years ago. The convention
p recalls this early history, though with
the passing of the years and the de-i
velopment of new issues the first steps
of the party have passed from com
*snon view.
“It will probably not be possible to
trace to the earliest date the first pos-1
itive meeting which led to the forma
tion of the new party,” w’rites Francis
:
Curtis, in his history of the Republican
party. “It is quite likely that there
was no considerable gathering of men.
nor discussion of plans and policies,
until A. E. Bovay, a Whig of Ripon,
Wis., together with a Mr. Bowen, a
Democrat, and a Mr. Baker, a Free-;
!
Soldier, issued a call for a public!
meeting to consider the now’ alarming
situation.”
The great issue of the hour was the!
extension of slavery. Of the politicalj
situation prefacing the formation of
the Republican party, Mr. Curtis says: |
“No political party wras able to elect
enough members of congress to over
rule the united wrill of the slavehold
ers, and until the anti-slavery senti
ment of the North should be so w’elded
^ together, and its exponents should be
so united in one party as to be able
to send to Washington enough men to
outvote the representatives of the
slave power, there was no hope that
me Dm passed me senate, in
which body it originated, on March 3,
1854, and on March 20, the second
meeting, participated in by men of all
parties, was held, this time in a school
house, at which Bovay was the leading
spirit.
•'By a vote of the assemblage, the
town committees of the Whig and
Free Soil parties were dissolved, and
a committee of five, three Whigs, one
Democrat and one Free-Soiler, was
chosen to begin the task of forming
a new party.
‘‘At these two meetings was started
the earliest systematic work begun
anywhere in the country to bring |
about the coalition of the enemies of j
slavery extension, who were eventual
ly fused into a homogeneous and ag
gressive party, adopting the name Re
publican.”
Mr. Harvey quoted a letter Bovay
later wrote to him about this meeting,
^ in which he said:
‘‘I went from house to house and
from shop to shop and halted men on
the streets to get their names for the
. meeting March 20, 1854. At that time
there were not more than a hundred
voters in Ripon, and by a vast deal
of earnest talking I obtained fifty
three of them. We went into a little
meeting, Whigs, Free Soilers and Dem
ocrats. We came out of it Repub
licans and we were the first Repub
licans in the Union. I had one great
advantage in this work. I was an in
timate friend of Horace Greeley and
he would always listen to me on polit
ical matters. He did not always as
sent to my propositions, but in the
end he did to most of them, and he
did to this one after a good deal of
nagging. It was not one letter that I
wrote to him, but many, before he
displayed the Republican flag in the
Tribune’s columns.”
Mr. Harvey, in his article quoted in
Mr. Curtis’ book, concludes:
“It is not claimed here that Bovay
is the creator of the Republican party.
The spirit was active in 1854, in every
village and city in the free states,
which would have created that party
even if Bovay and Greeley had never
been born. Bovay, however, was the
first person who set out in a resolute,
persistent and practical way to form
the party; he was the first to suggest
the name, and Greeley, through his
paper, which had the largest circula
tion and influence of any journal in the
country at that time, gave his valuable
aid in making the party project and
name known to the country.”
The first national Republican con
vention was held in Philadelphia two
years, later.
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Reference was made to the Ripon
meeting by Henry Wilson, when vice
president of the United States, in his
book “Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power,” published in 1874. “One of
the earliest, if not the earliest, or' the
movements,” he paid, “tbal contem
plated definite action and the ibrnia
tion of a new' party, was made in
Ripon, Fond du Lac county, Wiscon
sin, in the early months of 1854, in
consequence of a very thorough can
vas. conference, and general compari
son of view's inaugurated by A. E.
Bovay, a prominent member of the
Whig party, among the Whigs, Free
Soilers and Democrats of that town.
* A call was issued for a public meet
ing to consider the grave issues w'hich
were assuming an aspect of such
alarming proportions.”
The meeting thus called, wrote
Charles M. Harvey in the Chautau
quan, September, 1897, “was called in
the Congregational church at Ripon,
February 28, 1854. A resolution was
adopted in the meeting that if the bill
then pending in the senate to throw
open to slavery the territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska should pass, the old
party organizations in Ripon should
be cast off, and a new party, to be
called the Republican, formed on the
sole issue of opposition to slavery ex
tension.