The Republican Party chose Lincoln over a Know Nothing candidate in 1860. In 60 and 64 they put pro-immigrant policies in the election platform. Seward and Chase were in opposition to nativists. Which is not to say there were no nativist R's, just that they had no voice.
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The AG, Bates, had been a Know-Nothing, however.
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