No longer the Party of Lincoln
It should be noted that the Republican Party that our great Civil War hero Robert Smalls founded in South Carolina is not the Republican Party we know today. The Republican Party of the 1860’s was the party of Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party of today bears no resemblance to it. If Robert Smalls and Abraham Lincoln were living today they would be staunch members of the Democratic Party with all the beliefs and values this Party embraces!
– Barbara Temple, Lady’s Island
