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D’Souza claims that not one Republican was a slave owner. Sorry, but he’s wrong. James Wallace, Maryland lawyer, legislator, and slave owner. He joined the Republican party shortly after the 1856 election and later commanded the 1st Maryland Infantry (Eastern Shore) Regiment at Gettysburg. He resigned his commission late in 1863 when the Union army began to seriously recruit black troops.

James Wallace was born on March 14, 1818 to a prominent Dorchester County family in Cambridge, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College with the class of 1840 in the autumn of 1836. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in the early summer of 1840. He returned to Cambridge and studied law, gaining admittance to the Maryland bar in 1842 and opened a successful practice.
His success and his local prominence brought him into politics and he served a term in the Maryland house of delegates between 1854 and 1856 and moved on to the state senate between 1856 and 1860. In 1856, having become involved with the American Party, he was a presidential elector, duly casting his ballot for Millard Fillmore. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he helped raise the First Maryland Volunteers (Eastern Shore) in August 1861 and took command as its colonel.

Not so fast, D-Dawg, Millard Fillmore was not the Republican candidate in 1856, that was John C. Frémont. Millard Fillmore had been a Whig and became the "Know Nothing party candidate in 1856.

The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the "Know Nothing movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s. It was primarily anti-Catholic, xenophobic and hostile to immigration, starting originally as a secret society.

That does not sound like a Republican to me.