Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, for the Year 1930: Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society, Springfield, Illinois, May 8-9, 1930 Professor James Lee Sellers, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The make-up of the Early Republican Party.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.