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The platform of 1860 was a little broader
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and had somewhat more moderate appeals in it
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than their 1856
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deeply free soil platform had had.
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They made big appeals in 1860 to create higher federal tariffs,
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to create free homestead law in the West--
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these were all appeals to the common man--
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and to the rights of immigrants,
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because the Republicans
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were now successful by the late 1850s at all
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but dissolving that Nativist Party,
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the Know-Nothings, or the American Party,