The Ripon meeting was held in 1854, but the Republican Party held the first national convention in 1856.
Basically, the old Whig party is chaotic and has a new form of party format. Horace Greeley is clearly a person who proposed the name "Republican".
In fact, when it basically collapsed, it tried to provide a house for Whigs who was a "party free politician."
After the collapse of the Whig party in the early 1950s, many political organizations stood out from the collapse. Two of them will stand out, one is the Republican Party and the other is the American Party that abolished the death penalty. But the Republican Party will become a true firepower to dominate the political system for a long time. However, it is worth noting that these two groups are not similar to the current situation. Because policy changes in these groups occur between third-party systems. Republicans are anti-slavery, and Democrats are trying to slave the territory and the northern countries. By contrast, the Democratic Party insists that Republicans will start a civil war.
After the collapse of the Whig party in the 1950s, many Ohions joined the Republican Party. Some of them opposed Democratic support for the expansion of slavery. Most Ohio are not abolishists, but they do not want to expand slavery, mainly because they do not want to compete economically with the slave owner. The Republicans pointed out that slavery is morally wrong, but the Republican platform only requires that slavery be prevented from spreading to new territories where slavery does not exist yet.
Tension worsens and the old Whigs party seems to die. Many believers formed a new political organization with the Republican Party in the 1950s and became members of Know-Nothings and other anti-slavery. When the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860, the South was afraid that Republicans would abolish slavery for new peaks. Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery, but stated that it does not interfere wherever it exists.