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Entry: The Real Rudy Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_real_rudy#10339 Post contents: Although the Republican Party of the 1860s contained a goodly number of memebers hostile to Catholics and immigrants (many Know Nothings had joined the party after the demise of their party), Lincoln was not among them. His law partner Billy Herndon remarked that Lincoln thought the immigrants would be good for the country, even the Irish (whom Herndon loathed). Lincoln also returned the Church's property in the Mexican Cession which had been confiscated by the Mexican government after the revolution in the 1820s. Sent at: 2008 07 24