and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing." "The Election in November" by James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic Monthly; October, 1860.

If you're not on our team, you're evil." The election of 1860 had its genteel moments. Visiting his local polling place in Springfield on Nov. 6, 1860, Lincoln voted a straight Republican ticket ...

"VICTORY! VICTORY!! VICTORY!!!" proclaimed The Ohio Repository in November of 1860, heralding the election of Abraham Lincoln. "Lincoln, Hamlin and Victory! the paper reported beneath a drawing of ...

OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, No. 7 Broad-street, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1860. To John A. Kennedy, Esq., General Superintendent of Police: DEAR SIR -- On election nights our messengers have ...

Editor Charles Mitchell discussed the election of 1860. The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event. Editor Charles Mitchell discussed the election of 1860.

The president’s name was James Buchanan, and Larson’s book is about the winter of 1860-61, the four pivotal months between Abraham Lincoln’s election on November 6, 1860 and his inauguration ...

In a wise effort to separate the management of local affairs from the entanglements of party combination, the Charter election has been divided from the November contest, in which, to a greater or ...

When Republican, anti-slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860, the South was up in arms. According to the Library of Congress, South Carolina seceded from the U.S ...

The election of November may prove a Culloden ... though the uninitiated fail to see any logical sequence from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the Constitution, Mr. Breckinridge is ...