The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03

form a third party, but he labored earn
 estly to prevent the election of Cass
 Mir. Van Buren's platform was Free
 Boil, Free Speech Free Labor, Free
 Men"
 Van Buren was soon dropped and lost
 forever from the revolution he organized.
 On the other hand Yancey after eight years waiting, rose 10 supreme influence. In the next Congress. 1Si9-5l. the move ment to which MT. Van Burens candl-
 dacy had given the needed responsibility placed Salmon P. Chase in the Senate from Ohio. abolitionist. John P Hale from New Hampshire was already in his seat in the body. the only member elect ed on practically the same issue, also an
 aboltionist. In the congress of 1s5lS Josh
 ua R. Giddngs of New orS, George W Julian of Indiana and others of that fac ton, men of extraordinary ability, ap- peared in the House Charles Sumner an extreme apostle, took Webster seat
 and held 1t with great energy The nu- cleus proved so fruitful that in 1856 Ere
 mont was very dangerous competitor | for President and In 1860 Lincoln won the
 same battle
 l The whigs nominated Brig. .-Cien. Zach
 arv Taylor of the army. He had meyer l cast a vote and was astonlshingly ignor 1 ant of public affairs He was a large planter owning many slaves in Louis | jana, Taylor received 1.360.099 popular i votes. Cass 1,22O,154, and Van Buren 29l i, ! 263. Taylor got 163 electoral votes. Cass | 127, Van Buren none. Maine and New | Hampshire gave their votes to the dem ocratic ticket All the other New Eng land states and all the middle states Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina,
 Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Florida voted for Taylor.
 I PIERCE AND KING-1S52. lon,
 at Baltimore, the democrats nominated
 Franklin Pierce. The whigs nominated Gen. Winfield Scott of the army over Daniel Webster Tile democrats carried
 the election on. the compromise of 1850 But the electoral vote, 254 for Pierce to 42 for Scott, by no means indicated that public sympathy stood six to one on the winning side. Out of the total vote. 2.9S9,- S54. Pierces maioritY was only 215,G94 Hale. phrasng himself free democrat, got over one hundred and fifty thousand popular votes, but no electoral vote THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION 1860.
 The democratic national convention
 met at Cincinnati in 1856 and at Charles ton. s. C.. in 1860. The cotton states withdrew from the Charleston convention
 and reassembled al Richmond, Va The Charleston convention proper. sadtourned
 to Baltimore and those states in -convef-
 ton at Richmondr adjourned there to re srme their relations with the regular
 convention at Baltimore. The Baltimore
 adjourned convention refused to receive
 the Alabama and Louisiana secedfng del
 egations. .Thereupon an independent con vention was orsH nized. mostly of south ern members. in1aDother hall. Gael Cushing of Massa chusetts. who presided at Charleston. vacated his office In the adjourned meeting to preside over the se- 1 oeding convention. fr
 The original body nominated stephen A.
 Coughs. The seceding body nominated
 John C. tBreckiuridee. Old line whgs
 and abotionists. now. known as republi- cans no,ninated Abraham Lincoln. A faction of old line whigs nominated John | Bell.
 l The electoral vote stood. Lincoln 1S0 Breckinridee 72. Bell 39 Douglas 12 This l gave Lincoln an electoral majority of 51 | Nevertheless Lincoln lost the election al
 the polls 10 the field by a greater relative majority against him than any candi' 1 date for the presid encY ever had lost 1t
 The popular vote stood. Lincoln 1,S66. 452 Douglas 1375.157. Breokinridge s4I,s5S
 Bell 59o.6s1. thus defeating Lincoln .a'