Why did United States stop celebrating The Eighth(January 8) as a federal holiday?
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It appears that the post is based on a mistake which can be traced to the linked Wikipedia page: That page claims that
The Eighth was a federal holiday in the United States from 1828 until 1861.
But, according to a more reputable source (the Congressional Research Service, here),
The first four congressionally designated federal holidays were created in 1870.
Incidentally, out of curiosity, I also checked another claim made by the same Wikipedia page:
Historians recall the celebrations [of the 8th] were larger than Christmas and were only surpassed by The Fourth.
The given reference
Herstein, Beth (January 8, 2010). "War Stories". New Orleans Living Magazine.
contains absolutely no such claims. (And the author of the paper is by no means a historian, but a self-described "freelance writer, attorney, columnist.")
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An important thing to realize here is that this was effectively a holiday to celebrate Andrew Jackson, the commander of the US forces at the Battle of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson is also remembered by history as effectively the co-founder of the Democratic Party. So this was essentially a politically partisan holiday.
The Civil war effectively marked the eclipse of the Democratic Party in the United States for a while. Their base in the new Party System was now in the southern slave-holding states, and those states were no longer participating in the government. There were still some Northern Democrats, but they were split and weak. The Democratic party did not manage to acquire control of either house of Congress again for 15 years.
So it makes sense that the Republican party would use this as an opportunity to get rid of what was effectively a Democratic federal holiday.
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