Show I I J Just History s Y I I By Albert Ib F. F Philips p While the birth of the Republican party is given as in the campaign of 1856 it was really b born bom rn in 1839 when in December of that year ear In Warsaw Genesse cou county t New ew York Tork a cOI convention was held which nOminated nominated nom fern James G G. Birney of New ew York for president and Francis G G. Lemoyne of ut Penns Pennsylvania for foi vice president f This part party was the LIberal Lib LIb- Liberal eral party which had but one olle vital principle of ot political faith and that was the abolition of slavery This was the tile corner corner stone of the I structure ture on which the Republican party I was built Its total vote in 1840 was only and twenty years later it I swept the country and elected Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln president and con con- trolled ed the government for y years ears i forty In the c of 1839 40 the convention ivich ch nominated the Whig cand candidate dale for president and v ice president was convened almost a year rear before the tile election The convention con con- was held in Pa on December 4 1839 Three days later after repeated conferences by committees a Joint committee reported reported re- re ported to the tile convention that it had decided l upon William ViiI Henry Harrison Harri Harri- son for tor president the vote for him being for foi Henry Clay 90 and for Winfield Scott 16 The next day the tile convention adopted the report leport of ot the committee and proceeded to nominate General Harrison l bv by v a resolution declaring him the candidate candidate candi- candi candi candi- date and this action afterward met with the unanimous approval of the convention John Tyler was nomInated nom nom- mated by acclamation for vice vlee pres pres- ident From the date of this con Con- down to the present time all party nominations for president and vice president hav have hae e been made in national conventions cOn No platform was adopted by the convention the one purpose e In view was a uniting of all pal patties parties ties possible to bring about the defeat of Van Buren who had been by the Democrats Demo Demo- but who had no running mate the convention declining to a candidate for vice president The popular vote was a landslide for tor Harrison who received 1 votes as against for tOr Van Buren the electoral college giving Harrison votes while Van Buren could muster but sixty Harrison had been an officer in the regular army and had fought against the Indians under Mad l Anthony An An- Anthony thony Wayne In 1801 he lIe was appointed ap ap- pointed to be governor of the northWest northwest northwest north north- west territory which was known as the Territory of Indiana In 1811 while of governor the territory an open rupture with the tribes of Indians Indians In In- In under Chief Tecumseh and his brother the prophet t occurred I General Harrison endeavored to to pacify them and at one time secured a friendly conference but without avail so that with a force of 1000 men on the night of ot November 1 6 1811 he marched matched to the Indian village vii vil lage of Tippecanoe after atter which the county of noe Ind received its name and so so signally defeated the Red Rd men that it ended the- the warThe war The legislatures of or Indiana and Kentucky gave him a vote of thanks and President Madison in a message to congress expressed his warm appreciation appreciation appreciation ap ap- ap- ap of the tile conduct of General Harrison After Arter the surrender of Hull during durIng during dur dur- ing the War Var of ot 1812 General Harrison Harrison Harrison Har Har- rison was given command o of ot the army aimy in that section of the tile country with the rank of brigadier general and sown sOlin after that of major general gen gen- oral eral and ho he was given unlimited power such power power as hid had never neer been given but two commanders of or ortle tile tho arm army Washington and Greene That power Is best detailed In theor the tho or order er given g General Harrison which read You will command such means as may be practicable exercise your our own discretion and act in all eases cases according to your jour our own ot Judgment General Harrison suggested the building of tb tho ships that made up Commodore Perry's Perrys fleet and nd from the tile command of ot Harrison the fleet I Was as manned and to him is duo due up much I of tho the credit of ot the battle of ot Lake Lale Lakel Erie Erle l le which resulted in iii the capture of the entire fleet Then Harrison pushed the time British over ovel Into Canada an and the last stan stand of the British was made at the tile Thames a H. small river rivet that flows Into Lake Lake Sinclair and where the Americans achieved a victor victon victory killing hlll- hlll Ing Hg the tho great Indian Chief Tecumseh Tecum- Tecum ieh seii and which settled forever the tho t d I fear that the the Indians Indians' would ultimately ulti ulti- I drive back the tho white settlers set set- tiers I And this tills was the man whom the Whigs named and elected as the II ninth president of ot the tile the United States The slogan in that campaign campaign cam cam- was Tippecanoe and Tyler too The effort of Harrisons Harrison's op opponents opponents opponents op- op to belittle the fact that he lived in a Jog cabin and drank hard cider redounded to the credit of General Harrison The people did not believe in caste It was the first campaign in which the masses masse took a hand in the East the West Vest and the South The log cabin oc occupied occupied oc- oc a place In every mass meetIng meeting meet meet- i ing ng and when the tile vote ote was counted at the close of the polls on election d day y it was shown that the people had faith in him for tor in the twenty- twenty sI si sia states that participated in th the election election he carried every everyone one but eight and those eight states had but sixty Votes in the tho electoral college college col col- col- col lege hege while the eighteen that gave him their vo vote voe e had General Harrison Was Wag in fe feeble bl health when called to the preS presidency dency and his death occurred on p 4 j 1841 just st one m month at I his inauguration Pneumonia was I the immediate cause of death and so brief was his illness that his I wife wICe was unable to reach his bedside bedside bed bed- bed j side before his death |