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#REDIRECT [[Liberal Republican Party (United States)]] |
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'''Liberal Republicans''' were an American political party that existed during the 1872 election. It comprised old-line Republicans who had broken with President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. It began in Missouri under the leadership of [[Carl Schurz]] and spread nationwide. It had strong support from powerful Republican newspaper editors such as [[Murat Halstead]] of the Cincinnati Commercial, [[Horace White]] of the [[Chicago Tribune]], [[Henry Watterson]] of the [[Louisville Courier-Journal]], [[Samuel Bowles (journalist)|Samuel Bowles]] of the Springfield Republican and especially [[Whitelaw Reid]] and [[Horace Greeley]] of the [[New York Tribune]]. The Liberal Republicans thought that the Grant Administration, and the president personally, were fully corrupt. More important they thought that the goals of [[Reconstruction]] had been achieved. These goals were first the destruction of slavery and second the destruction of Confederate nationalism. With these goals achieved the tenets of [[republicanism]] demanded that federal military troops be removed from the South, where they were propping up corrupt Republican regimes. Many of the original founders of the Republican party and leaders of the Civil War joined the movement, including its nominee [[Horace Greeley]], [[Charles Sumner]] of Massachusetts, [[Lyman Trumbull]] of Illinois, and [[Charles Francis Adams]] of Massachusetts. The party platform demanded "the immediate and absolute removal of all disabilities imposed on account of the rebellion" and local self-government for the southern states. It regarded "a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour." |
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The Liberal Republicans did not nominate candidates for state or local office, enabling the Democrats to not nominate a presidential candidate. Democratic strongholds all voted for the Liberal Republican ticket. Grant won in a landslide and the Liberal Republican party vanished, with most of its members returning to the GOP, and others switching to the Democrats. The demand for pulling troops out of the South was met in 1877, and the demand for civil service reform was achieved by the end of the century. |
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==References== |
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* Baum, Dale. ''The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts'' (1984) ch 8 |
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* Burg, Robert W. "Amnesty, Civil Rights, And The Meaning Of Liberal Republicanism, 1862-1872". ''American Nineteenth Century History'' 2003 4(3): 29-60. |
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* Donald, David. ''Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man'' (1970). |
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* Rhodes, James Ford. ''History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. Volume: 7 ch 39-40. '' (1920) |
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* Ross, Earle D. ''Liberal Republican Movement'' (1971). |
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* Summers, Mark Wahlgren. ''The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878'' (1994) ch 15 |
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* Van Deusen, Glyndon G. ''Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader'' (1953) |
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[[Category:Historic United States political parties]] |
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