Talk:Anti-Nebraska movement

Old talk ("party"?)
Was there really a formal organized Anti-Nebraska party, or more of a loose Anti-Nebraska movement? -- AnonMoos (talk) 14:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, New York state election, 1855 says that the party held a state convention. That would point in the direction of it having some sort of formal organization. --Soman (talk) 13:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The article still seems to be confused or confusing -- there was never a nationally organized party under the name "Anti-Nebraska", and Salmon P. Chase was an Ohio politician, not New York. I bet the 1855 New York Anti-Nebraska "party" was probably actually more of an intended fusion ticket -- and from the article, it seems it was a temporary waystation to the Republican party... AnonMoos (talk) 15:30, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Rename to "Anti-Nebraska movement"

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The result of the move request was: moved as apparently uncontroversial. DrKiernan (talk) 16:53, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Anti-Nebraska Party → Anti-Nebraska movement – It was really more of a loose movement than a formally-organized party; when it became a party, it was called the Republican Party. In fact, the whole point of the original movement was that it allied people of various political opinions who were not necessarily ready to renounce their previous party affiliations... Relisted  Calidum Talk To Me 02:38, 21 August 2014 (UTC) AnonMoos (talk) 06:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment – the term "anti-Nebraska party" is not uncommon in sources. But it is seldom capitalized, as it's a description, not the name of a party.  I would not oppose "movement" or "party".  Dicklyon (talk) 06:37, 22 August 2014 (UTC)


 * The word "party" can sometimes be used in such a loose and vague way (i.e. to refer more to a current of opinion than a formally-organized political entity), but using it in that way could be dangerously misleading in the current context (and in fact, it seems that the authors of the current version of the article were significantly led astray by the word) -- so I would really prefer to get the word "party" out of the article title... AnonMoos (talk) 16:01, 24 August 2014 (UTC)


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WikiProject Conservatism?
The only way the anti-Nebraska movement could be classified under "conservatism" is that it was the precursor to the Republican party, and the Republican party afterwards developed a "Hamiltonian" orientation (favorable to monied interests). In the context of 1854-1855, the anti-Nebraska movement was not particularly conservative (actual conservatives during 1854-1855 generally sought to avoid giving great political prominence to slavery issues...). AnonMoos (talk) 06:26, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

relationship between anti-Nebraska and Know-Nothing
There was a complicated history of diverse political maneuverings (sometimes including "fusion tickets" or partial fusion tickets) in various local areas. I don't have the interest or the expertise to go into this in any detail, and I'm not sure it would be directly relevant to this article anyway. The main point is that in 1855 many people thought that in a number of areas Know-Knothingism (or the "American Party") had the advantage (that was when Lincoln wrote his "Russia" letter to Joshua Speed on August 24, 1855), but by the time of the 1856 elections, anti-slavery-extensionism (as mainly organized into the Republican party) was revealed by the election results to be stronger, and it was all downhill for Know-Knothingism from that point... AnonMoos (talk) 02:35, 25 September 2014 (UTC)


 * According to David M. Potter in The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861 it was only by a combination of skilled political maneuvering together with lucky circumstances that Republicans ended up in the position that they did in late 1856 onwards -- with most of the non-southern supporters of nativism (i.e. anti-immigration and anti-Catholicism) associating themselves with the Republican party, but without the Republican party at the national level having compromised itself by making any formal commitments to support nativism (kind of the best of both worlds). If a few things had turned out differently (such as Nathaniel P. Banks not being so obligingly flexible), then the Republican Party might have ended up being much more of a combined nativist and anti-slavery-extension party... AnonMoos (talk) 14:27, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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