Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Sakamakon ra'ayoyinsa na bautar da bautar Jenkins ya zama dan Republican lokacin da aka kafa jam'iyyar. A shekara ta 1856 ya yi aiki a matsayin wakili na farko na Jam'iyyar Republican National Convention
Ka yi haƙuri. A shekara ta 1857 shi ne dan takarar Republican wanda bai yi nasara ba don zama a kotun daukaka kara ta New York, ya rasa Hiram Denio. A shekara ta 1858 ya kasance dan takarar dan takarar Republican ga Gwamnan New York, kuma ya rasa Edwin D. Morgan, wanda ya ci gaba da lashe zaben.