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How New Hampshire helped lift Lincoln to the presidency

Concord Monitor - Sun Nov 8, 1:21 am ET

The Republican Party was born at a meeting convened by former New Hampshire Congressman Amos Tuck on Oct. 12, 1853. That gathering in Exeter brought former Whigs, disgruntled Democrats, Free Soil men and Know-Nothings together to assert a truth they held to be self-evident: Slavery must not be allowed to expand.

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