Germanicus
10-03-2013, 06:32 AM
I want to take you back to the 1850s, a time of tension just before the American Civil War. A new politics was spreading across the lands the likes of which few could comprehend. The result was the creation of a new political party in a small schoolhouse within a small Wisconsin town. This party was to be called the ‘Republican Party’. Assuming you already know all that perhaps it is best I just dive right into the subject at hand.
A man named Alvin Earl Bovay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_E._Bovay) was in rural New York State, who went to Norwich University and admitted to the bar at Utica in July, 1846. A man dedicated to politics he became heavily involved in abolitionism and free soil, two popular movements at the time. He became the secretary of the National Reform Association which was a group dedicated to advancing the Homestead Act, free soil, abolitionism, and adding reverence to God into the US Constitution.
The NRA was chiefly concerned with the concentration of wealth, something they tied to the horrors of the old world. They felt there should not be a right to the unlimited accumulation of wealth in this country. The association (http://www.hbs.edu/bhr/archives/bookreviews/80/mgreen.pdf)soon turned towards what is described as “a spectrum the most revolutionary anarchist and socialist currents in American life”. This hostility towards concentrated wealth made them hostile to the South especially seeing as how it was governed largely by wealthy gentry using slavery in replace of paid labor, further amassing their wealth concentration and depriving laborers of good wages.
Some historians have tied the NRA’s most important members to being under the influence of Socialism, Trade Unionism, and of course Abolitionism. By the late 1840s they had taken up the issue of a new Homestead Act whereby land west of the Mississippi accounting for 160 or more undeveloped acres would be given to any occupant 21 years or older who lived there for five years and maintained the land. This was perhaps their most important cause which was the land – reform movement, which was tied into abolitionism.
In the late 1840s Bovay relocated his family from New York to the newly formed town of Ripon, Wisconsin. Just prior to its formation the area had been used by utopian socialists as a commune known as Ceresco after the Roman Goddess of agriculture. It was still a hotbed for political activity, of which I believe it is safe to assume Socialism was a major driving force.
Around 1852 Bovay had contacted newspaper editor Horace Greeley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley), a man who had been an adherent of the newly developing ideology of Socialism. His newspaper, the New York Tribune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_Tribune), was the most widely circulated paper in America and featured such contributors as Margaret Fuller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller) (the first major Feminist), Henry James Sr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(Senior)) (utopian Socialist), Charles Dana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anderson_Dana) (Abolitionist), and Karl Marx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx) (founder of Communism). Marx was one of the main contributors to the Tribune and his work is available online (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/newspapers/new-york-tribune.htm). Another contributor to the paper Henry Jarvis Raymond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jarvis_Raymond) went on to found the New York Times.
In 1860 a paramilitary group of the Republican Party was formed called the Wide Awake Republicans, identifying themselves as ‘Wide Awakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes)’. One reported incident was on October 3, 1860 in Chicago when 10,000 Wide Awakes marched in a three – mile precession. By the end of 1860 the New York Tribune had estimated there to be over 400,000 drilled and uniformed Wide Awakes nationwide. [The New York Herald (Sept. 19, 1860)] The adopted unofficial mission statement of Wide Awake chapters was:
1st. To act as a political police.
2nd. To do escort duty to all prominent Republican speakers who visit our place to address our citizens.
3rd. To attend all public meetings in a body and see that order is kept and that the speaker and meeting is not disturbed.
4th. To attend the polls and see that justice is done to every legal voter.
5th. To conduct themselves in such a manner as to induce all Republicans to join them.
6th. To be a body joined together in large numbers to work for the good of the Republican Ticket.
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The Republican Party was founded by Socialists, at the time Socialist rhetoric, worked through a Socialist newspaper, and marched as a half – million large militia bearing two revolutionary flags and the eye of providence. Yet Bovay was still not satisfied and by the 1870s he marched under a new banner, that of prohibition by founding the Prohibition Party. This was the new issue of which the radicals rallied around, then adopting it into the Republican Party during the 1880s.
http://occidentaltraditionalist.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/republican-party-was-founded-by.html
I like The Occidental Traditionalist. He is super smart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/lincoln/contents/grinspan.html
Did you Republicans know that you were socialists? Imagine a hybrid Wide Awake Tea Party. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee could be the leaders maybe. And you bring in Nader off the bench and his Nader Raiders... Take in a Green Party Member. Unions.. A US Third Party Coalition built on common goals and compromise.
One thing I think is important for a new party is that it does not take political donations. I think that is one of the things that messed OWS up because it made them hypocritical. It must be free to support the party and all members equal.
Got any rule ideas for a new political party? The next election will be perfect for a Third Party/Independent. The time has never been better for a new US party to emerge or a coalition.
A man named Alvin Earl Bovay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_E._Bovay) was in rural New York State, who went to Norwich University and admitted to the bar at Utica in July, 1846. A man dedicated to politics he became heavily involved in abolitionism and free soil, two popular movements at the time. He became the secretary of the National Reform Association which was a group dedicated to advancing the Homestead Act, free soil, abolitionism, and adding reverence to God into the US Constitution.
The NRA was chiefly concerned with the concentration of wealth, something they tied to the horrors of the old world. They felt there should not be a right to the unlimited accumulation of wealth in this country. The association (http://www.hbs.edu/bhr/archives/bookreviews/80/mgreen.pdf)soon turned towards what is described as “a spectrum the most revolutionary anarchist and socialist currents in American life”. This hostility towards concentrated wealth made them hostile to the South especially seeing as how it was governed largely by wealthy gentry using slavery in replace of paid labor, further amassing their wealth concentration and depriving laborers of good wages.
Some historians have tied the NRA’s most important members to being under the influence of Socialism, Trade Unionism, and of course Abolitionism. By the late 1840s they had taken up the issue of a new Homestead Act whereby land west of the Mississippi accounting for 160 or more undeveloped acres would be given to any occupant 21 years or older who lived there for five years and maintained the land. This was perhaps their most important cause which was the land – reform movement, which was tied into abolitionism.
In the late 1840s Bovay relocated his family from New York to the newly formed town of Ripon, Wisconsin. Just prior to its formation the area had been used by utopian socialists as a commune known as Ceresco after the Roman Goddess of agriculture. It was still a hotbed for political activity, of which I believe it is safe to assume Socialism was a major driving force.
Around 1852 Bovay had contacted newspaper editor Horace Greeley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley), a man who had been an adherent of the newly developing ideology of Socialism. His newspaper, the New York Tribune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_Tribune), was the most widely circulated paper in America and featured such contributors as Margaret Fuller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller) (the first major Feminist), Henry James Sr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(Senior)) (utopian Socialist), Charles Dana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anderson_Dana) (Abolitionist), and Karl Marx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx) (founder of Communism). Marx was one of the main contributors to the Tribune and his work is available online (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/newspapers/new-york-tribune.htm). Another contributor to the paper Henry Jarvis Raymond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jarvis_Raymond) went on to found the New York Times.
In 1860 a paramilitary group of the Republican Party was formed called the Wide Awake Republicans, identifying themselves as ‘Wide Awakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes)’. One reported incident was on October 3, 1860 in Chicago when 10,000 Wide Awakes marched in a three – mile precession. By the end of 1860 the New York Tribune had estimated there to be over 400,000 drilled and uniformed Wide Awakes nationwide. [The New York Herald (Sept. 19, 1860)] The adopted unofficial mission statement of Wide Awake chapters was:
1st. To act as a political police.
2nd. To do escort duty to all prominent Republican speakers who visit our place to address our citizens.
3rd. To attend all public meetings in a body and see that order is kept and that the speaker and meeting is not disturbed.
4th. To attend the polls and see that justice is done to every legal voter.
5th. To conduct themselves in such a manner as to induce all Republicans to join them.
6th. To be a body joined together in large numbers to work for the good of the Republican Ticket.
4127
4128
4129
4130
The Republican Party was founded by Socialists, at the time Socialist rhetoric, worked through a Socialist newspaper, and marched as a half – million large militia bearing two revolutionary flags and the eye of providence. Yet Bovay was still not satisfied and by the 1870s he marched under a new banner, that of prohibition by founding the Prohibition Party. This was the new issue of which the radicals rallied around, then adopting it into the Republican Party during the 1880s.
http://occidentaltraditionalist.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/republican-party-was-founded-by.html
I like The Occidental Traditionalist. He is super smart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/lincoln/contents/grinspan.html
Did you Republicans know that you were socialists? Imagine a hybrid Wide Awake Tea Party. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee could be the leaders maybe. And you bring in Nader off the bench and his Nader Raiders... Take in a Green Party Member. Unions.. A US Third Party Coalition built on common goals and compromise.
One thing I think is important for a new party is that it does not take political donations. I think that is one of the things that messed OWS up because it made them hypocritical. It must be free to support the party and all members equal.
Got any rule ideas for a new political party? The next election will be perfect for a Third Party/Independent. The time has never been better for a new US party to emerge or a coalition.