Versus #1 Typewriter: The Republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery party, at first only against allowing the new territories and states to be slave states, but quickly during the Civil War, being abolitionist. It was always for Civil Rights, and got the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution passed. It was the party of Frederick Douglass, and of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who not only sent federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, in order to enforce the 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in publi schools unconstitutional, but also appointed Ralph Bunche, a Negro, as Ambassador to the United Nations. It was southern Democrats who supported state-enforced racial discrimination. The Republican Party was the party of liberty for all, and it should continue to be so.
