Description. In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John ...

Stephen Douglas, who had defeated Lincoln in that Senate campaign two years earlier, ... In the wake of that crucial election of 1860, America's worst crisis had begun.

Douglas R. Egerton, Bloomsbury Press, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59691-619-7 The center could not hold amid a flood of passionate intensity recorded in this illuminating study of the 1860 election ...

McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...

Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial politician. ... But Douglas’s greatest service to the nation was his behavior during and after the 1860 presidential election.

It seems unimaginable! The truth is, if the Democrats had not been so divided in 1860 and stood behind their main candidate, Senator Stephen Douglas would have been elected president and Lincoln ...

The raucous presidential debates of 2016 may draw comparisons to 1860, when Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas. But things were much different then.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

Stephen A. Douglas, future U.S. senator and 1860 presidential candidate of the Northern Democrats, moved to Winchester in 1833 at age 20 to teach school. There is a statue of Douglas in the town ...