History also writes that it is the Republicans who got slavery abolished. The LEFT went to war over it.
I'll forgive lostnfound on this because he's a dirty canuck, but this is historically uninformed. Back in the 1860's, the Republican party was the more progressive party. The Democrats were the conservative party. This continued up until the civil rights movement and to Nixon's presidency, when the parties started to shift. Republicans started to appeal to white southerners, and Democrats moved to the left and supported civil rights legislation.
This is extremely obvious - today, who do you think is more likely to wave a confederate flag - a Democrat or a Republican?? We can also see it in the voting patterns - racist white people in the south who opposed integration changed from Democrat to Republican during the 20th century.
It was the left who opposed slavery - in the 1860's, the Radical Republicans were the left wing party.