A look into the group instrumental to electing Abraham Lincoln president in 1860. The Wide Awakes were a Republican para-military organization distinguished from other political clubs of the 19th ...

Images provided by Q. David Bowers. In 1860 in Cincinnati, die sinker and token maker John Stanton tapped the engraving talents of Benjamin True to create a series of 22-millimeter tokens.

THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.; Review of Matters in Rhode Island The Victory not a Democratic one Action of the Abolition Clique and its Result Gov. Sprague's Position Rejoicings Parades Collation, & c.

That the delegates elected to the Charleston Convention by the Democratic Fourth Congressional Convention, assembled in Rechabite Hall, on Thursday evening, 23d February, 1860. are instructed to ...

Or, shall we, as one man, unite on STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, and with him march to certain victory over fanaticism, sectionalism and disunionism, under the folds of the Federal banner, with its ...

Democratic District Convention in Massachusetts.; ELECTION OF MORE DOUGLAS DELEGATES. Feb. 18, 1860 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from February 18, 1860, Page ...

Democrats never really had a candidate to run against Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but they still managed to get three electoral votes with four going to the Republicans. Northern Democrats were backing ...

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.

WASHINGTON, Monday, Jan. 23, 1860. To-day commences the eighth week of this, Congressional struggle, and if an election of Speaker be not had before next Saturday, the conflict will exceed in ...

Correspondence of the New- York Times. COLUMBUS, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1860. Politics are in a hubbub here to-day. The Democratic State Convention is in session to elect four Senatorial Delegates to ...

Resolutions were adopted by a large majority, declaring STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS the favorite of the Ohio Democracy, and instructed the Delegates to the Charleston Convention to cast their entire vote ...

Hon. JOSHUA HILL, of Georgia in a letter to the Milledgeville Recorder, urges the necessity of the election of delegates to the State Convention who shall represent, by association and habit, the ...