New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-04
DEMOCRACY RENT ASUNDER
THE FIRST NATIONAL VICTORY OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE CAM
PAIGN OF 1860.

PAlGN OF looU
DEMOCRATS DIVIDED INTO THREE FACTIONS
LINCOLN AND HIS PLATFORM SECESSION IN
THE soUTH-A PROTECTIVE TARIFF
ENACTED.
! The Presidential campaign Of 1860 saw fou
parties in the field. the Democrats being spill
up into three factions. aiming to throw tn
election Of President into Congress.
The Democratic Convention met at Charles
ton, S. c.. on April 23 The Southern delegates
carried matters with high hand. and insisted
on declaration In the platform that 1t wa
the duty OF the Federal Government to recos
nize slavery In the Territories The Norther
wing. led by Stephen A. Douglas. Of Illinois
protested that they could not carry the NORTH
on such a platform On April 30 the Southern
delegates seeded from the convention TIT
remainder OF the convention after ballotint
many times in vain without a nomination. ad
iourned TO June 1S. in Baltimore. At Baltimore
the session lasted from the 18th to the I'D. ant
Mr. Douglas was nominated The Southern
Democrats met on April 30 at Charleston afte
their bolt and on May adjourned to meet a
Richmond on June IL. At Richmond they ad
Baltimore on June q, and nominated John
Breckenridge Another wing Of the party formed
a Constitutional Union party. hoping that 1T
nominees might be indorsed by the RepubIi
cans at Chicago.
The Republicans rallied for their own conven
ton in Chicago in strong force. and brought
to the work Of that body men like Seward
Chase. Bates. Cameron. Lincoln and others who
for n
for freedom the rights Of free labor and the
occupation Of the public domain by actual set
tiers. who should receive their lands. either ur
der presumption for a nominal fost OF as nome
steads without payment. Mr.. Lincoln had be
come widely known from a series OF public de
bates with Stephen A. Douglas in Illinois in a
canvass for the United States Senatorship
LINCOLN AND HIS PLATFORM
The Republican candidates and platform OF
1860 were as follows:
For President-Abraham Lincoln. Of Illinois.
For Vice President-Hannibal Hamlin. then Uni
ted States Senator from Maine.
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PLATFORM
can party fully justified by the history Of the las
four years
Second-Declared for the maintenance Of the
principles of the Declaration OF Independence
and the Federal Constitution.
Third-Expressed adherence OF the threats OF
disunion made by the South.
Fourth--Declared for maintenance inviolate Of
the rights Of the States
Fifth-C ondemned the Administration OF Jane:
Buchanan for its measureless subserviency &c
the sectional interest Of slavery.
Sixth-Condemned the extravaganza and cor
ruptions Of the Administration Of James Blu
chanan.
Seventh-Opposed the new dogma that the
Constitution Of itself. carried slavery into the
Eighth-Denied the authority OF Congress and
Legislatures to give legal existence to slavery in
the Territories.
Ninth-Branded with infamy the recent reopen
ing of the African slave trade in the South.
Tenth-Condemned the veto by the Fedora
Governors OF Kansas and Nebraska Of the acts
prohibiting slavery In the Territories.
acknowledgements the immediate admission
OF Kansas under the Constitution adopted By
her own people.
policy which secures to the workngmen liber-
AL wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, 70
mechanics and manufacturers an adequate re-
ward for their skill. labor and enterprise. and tc
the Nation commercial prosperity and indie
pendence.'
Thirteenth-Demanded a satisfactory Home
stead law for the benefit Of actual settlers.
Fourteenth-Protested against abridging or
mpairing the rights OF citizenship Heretofore
granted to immigrants, and favored protection to
naturalzed citizens at home and abroad.
Fifteenth-Commended the policy Of improve
ment Of rivers and harbOrs
Sixteenth-Demanded a railroad to the Pacific
Ocean and a daily overland mail
Seventeentn-Appealed TO the country 70. sup
port
This platform conceded to the South all II
could rightfully ask. and breathed a spirit OF
freedom protection and nationality in every word
and line
THE BRECKENRIDGE DEMOCRATS.
The Southern wing Of the Democratic party
made these nominations END adopted a platform
containing the following provisions: