Here's what the newly formed Republican Party platform said in 1860.
"The present Democratic Administration has far exceeded our worst apprehensions . . . in its general and unvarying abuse of the power intrusted to it by a confiding people. That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans; while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal metropolis, show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded."
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