What were the main policy objectives of the republican and american parties?

Republican celebration antagonistic slavery and argued to force down the wages of loose employees and degraded the distinction of manual labor. They praised a society based on "the middling lessons who own the soil and paintings it with their personal hands."

American birthday celebration - Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic origins - wanted to: - Unite native-born Protestants in opposition to Irish, and German Catholics - prohibit similarly immigration