The American South, led by the Democrat Party, fought the bloodiest war in America’s history in order to keep America’s slaves in chains. The Republican Party was formed by Northern Protestant Christians for the sole purpose of ending slavery. It succeeded. Abraham Lincoln led the Republican Party, and the North, to victory, and freed the slaves. For this act of human decency, he paid with his life. Sounds like someone else I know from the Bible who gave his innocent life at the hands of the guilty.