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  1. If there is any resemblance of the TrumpMutation of the Republican party to any actual party in the election of 1856, it is not to the Republicans. Nor is it to the Democrats. Rather, it is to the third party in that campaign, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothings, who also had a concise platform. The original American Party sought to protect the purity of WhiteNative-born Protestants from the first great wave of immigration to the US, which consisted mostly of the Irish and Germans, and to stigmatizeTHECatholic religion.. "Americans mustRule America,” its platform proclaimed. Only native-born citizens should be allowed to hold any public office, federal, state or municipal." The KnowNothings emerged from the breakup of theWhigparty over the issue of the extension of Sla very in the territories.. Lincoln created the Illinois Repub party in 1856 out of a mixture of contending factions, including abolitionistsWhigs, dissidentAntislavery Democrats, and liberal German immigrants. LincolnDespised Know-Nothingism, which is identical to TrumpismToday. In 1855, Lincoln wrote that if the movement ever won power it would rewrite the Declaration of Independence: “When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except blks, and foreigners, andCatholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Ru55ia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
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