1856 ISRAEL WASHBURN. Rare on Republican View of Slavery & Country by Founding Member of the Party. Presbyterian & restored - paintings /

& restored - paintings / bought or sold on commission

Fordney bookplate on pastedown

he resisted it

These "chapel talks" by Henry Foster are of that school

1856 ISRAEL WASHBURN. Rare on Republican View of Slavery & Country by Founding Member of the Party. Presbyterian & restored - paintings /Originally a member of the Whig Party, Israel Washburn, by 1854 he no longer viewed the Party as in the best interest of the Country. Angry over the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act, Washburn called a meeting of 30 members of the U. S. House of Representatives to discuss forming what became the Republican Party. Republican gatherings had taken place in Wisconsin and Michigan earlier in the year, but Washburn's meeting was the first in the U. S.