Originally Posted by New User

I hate to be the one to inform you of this, but political parties have completely traded ideologies about 3 or 4 times since 1864. The current Republican party is not the party that began in the mid 1800's and the Democratic party is REALLY not the party it began in the late 1700's.

Here is another quote from your boy Lincoln you may find suites todays Republican party much better. This is from one of the Lincoln/Douglas debates:

"I believe the American Negro should be freed, no man in our sacred Union should be held in bondage. But make no mistake, I do not foresee the Negro as ever being equal to whites. Nor should they be."

Ummm, sure he was against slavery, but he was no defender of equal rights by any means.