Alternate names for the Republican Party

[Medibee]

I'm just questioning why the focus on the expansion into new territory.

It was the fear that instead of the land going to independent farmers it would go to the massive plantation owners.

Could it somehow be renamed the Lincoln party in honour of him?

Too monarchical for the sensibilities at the time.

 

[Thomas1195]

What Fanboy said. Could also just be shortened to "Union Party" or "Unionist Party", harkening back to its legacy as the party that saved the Union. That, or the "Liberty Party", harkening back to its anti-slavery roots (invokes the song "Lincoln and Liberty Too").

There is already a Liberty Party, buy that name could be used again.

Too monarchical for the sensibilities at the time.

Liberty Party
Freedom Party
American Progress Party/Progress Party

 

[Laqueesha]

It was the fear that instead of the land going to independent farmers it would go to the massive plantation owners.

Also, they wanted to put slavery on the path to "ultimate extinction", and adding more slave territory into the Union undermined that.

 

[GeographyDude]

Also, they wanted to put slavery on the path to "ultimate extinction", . . .

I wish and hope that was the case! But with the skepticism toward abolitionists, viewing them as some kind of idealists or extremists . . . And with the really negative beliefs toward African-Americans including by northerners, I have my doubts.

hope I’m wrong!

 

[Byzantion]

Title is pretty clear

Christian Democratic Party ? Constutionalist Party ?

 

[SeaCambrian]

The Lincolnheads
Grand Union Party
Unionist Party
Jayhawkers

 

[David T]

Title is pretty clear

In their early years, "anti-Nebraska" state parties were often called "People's Party"--especially in Lower North states where the Know Nothings were a major part of the anti-Nebraska coalition and the word "Republican" was considered too "radical" and almost "abolitionist." This was true in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as late as 1858. https://books.google.com/books?id=mcs3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT222 See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Party_(Indiana)

And of course in 1864 it became the "Union Party" to attract War Democrats--and as late as 1868 was the "Union Republican Party." ("The National Union Republican Party of the United States, assembled in National Convention, in the city of Chicago, on the 20th day of May, 1868, make the following declaration of principles..." https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/party-platforms-of-1868/

 

[Arcavia]

I wish and hope that was the case! But with the skepticism toward abolitionists, viewing them as some kind of idealists or extremists . . . And with the really negative beliefs toward African-Americans including by northerners, I have my doubts.

hope I’m wrong!

I'd argue that a lot of anti abolitionist sentiment was concern for the immediacy, rather than nature, of their platform.