[CaptIsaacDavis]

Abolitionists were not true Republicans. Most were Marxist (the first socialist revolutionary cells were formed during the Civil War in the North by the way, including many in the Army) and anything but republican in terms of their ideals. Republicans had a single issue coalition with the Abolitionists -- elimination of slavery. Beyond that, there was no agreement -- not even what to do with the freed slaves.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Abolitionist were the very heart of the early Republican Party. The first Republican presidential nominee, John Fremont, was an abolitionist, and Georgia-born too. The man who gave the keynote address at the 1860 Republican National Convention, David Wilmot, was an abolitionist. Abolitionists, such as Representative Thaddeus Stevens, held most of the congressional committee chairmanships during the Civil War. President Lincoln appointed an abolitionist, former Republican Governor and Senator Salmon Chase, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The marxist biz is not worth refuting.