ON THIS DAY - March 20th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today, an anti-slavery activist creates a political party, the same party holds the majority in Congress and has the Presidency in the US today, a renowned columnist passes away, and a legendary song writer turned actor is born.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | Phaar! Thank you. Boom and welcome to the big hunker podcast. |
| 0:57.2 | Boom! And welcome to the Big Honker podcast today. Brought to you to you by boss shells check them out at boss shot shells.com i'm jeffs damfield with the world famous andy shaver that's right that's right |
| 1:01.8 | get over to the onum booth this weekend fort worth yep come see me come see me and dirk will be there |
| 1:08.1 | with mattie come get get your picture made with all the pretty guys and you can also get one with Maddie or Dirk if you want. Okay, here we go. Today's March 20th. And my day is today. And it's my today. And the first thing we're going to talk about is people that my event, a very important thing in our lifetime started today. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah? |
| 1:28.6 | Yep. |
| 1:29.5 | In 1854, the Republican Party was founded today in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed |
| 1:38.6 | the Kansas Nebraska Act, which will allow for the potential extension of slavery to the |
| 1:42.1 | Western territories. |
| 1:43.3 | The party supported economic reform geared to industry supporting investments in manufacturing, |
| 1:48.3 | railroads, and banking. |
| 1:49.5 | The party was successful in the north, and by 1858 it enlisted former whigs and former fret-free soilers |
| 1:56.0 | to form majorities in almost every northern state. |
| 1:58.9 | White southerners of the planter class become alarmed |
| 2:01.6 | at the threat in the future of slavery in the United States. With the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, |
| 2:07.5 | the first Republican president in the southern states seceded from the United States. Under |
| 2:11.5 | leadership of Lincoln and Republican Congress, the Republican Party led the fight to defeat the |
| 2:15.6 | Confederate states in the American Civil War, thereby reserving the union and abolishing slavery. |
| 2:21.1 | So I'll get tired to hear about reparations. |
| 2:23.3 | Millions of white people died to end of it. |
| 2:26.5 | We won the war, so there we go. |
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