Learning history of Republican Party

This letter has taken me quite some time to write, but after much thought, I decided it was part of our history and should be known.

As reported in the News-Herald - on this date in history March 20th 1854 the Republican Party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin. And now for the rest of the story!

Horace Greeley, the owner and publisher of the New York Tribune, had the largest Sunday circulation of any newspaper in the nation.

Horace Greeley hired Charles Dana to be his managing editor of the Tribune. The two were vice presidents of a group called the Association, the leaders who were very much involved in the founding of the republican party at a little white school house in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.

Charles Dana , Greeley’s managing editor had a personal relationship with Karl Marx and had been in Europe during the Communist revolution of 1848. After Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto he was hired by Greeley’s Tribune as the foreign corespondent for 11 years.

The Association, a group led by Horace Greeley and Charles Dana, created about 50 Communist Communes across the United States, and you guessed it, one was in Ripon, Wisconsin!

The Republican Party’s first presidential candidate was Abraham Lincoln who also went on to win the White House. The great Emancipator did not go to war to free the slaves, slavery was a non issue. He went to war to keep the Union together under the iron fisted control of the federal government.

Since the days of Lincoln the federal government has expanded at least 10-fold, such as, defining marriage and the Department of Education and a whole litany of unconstitutional bureaucracies that have eviscerated the 10th amendment. I challenge readers to study the 10th amendment and decide how much power the states and the people have compared to the federal government.

And has the 10th amendment ever been repealed? David B. Genis

Painesville