MSNBC's UnCivil War on the Right

Media Research Center  "On 150th anniversary of start of Civil War, to MSNBC, conservatives are secessionists, slavery sympathizers and unreconstructed rebels."

Democrats in the 1860's

Republican Party opposed slavery  "The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former members of the Whig Party, the Free-Soil Party and the Democratic Party. Its original founders were opposed to slavery and called for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska and the Fugitive Slave Law. Early members thought it was important to place the national interest above sectional interest and the rights of individual States."

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 The Republicans and the Civil War  "From 1854, when the Republican Party was founded, Democrats labeled it adherents "black" Republicans to identify them as proponents of black equality. During the 1860 elections Southern Democrats used the term derisively to press their belief that Abraham Lincoln's victory would incite slave rebellions in the South and lead to widespread miscegenation. The image the term conveyed became more hated in the South during Reconstruction as Radical Republicans forced legislation repugnant to Southerners and installed Northern Republicans or Unionists in the governments of the former Confederate states."  Emphasis added.  civilwarhome.com