The Colorado statesman., 1924-06-07
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gard to slavery; favored admitting Kansas
free state denied the right of congress to give
legal existence TO slavery; declared the right of
congress to prohibit polygamy; urged railroad
to the Pacific, and upheld ''liberty Of conscience
and equality of rights among citizens"
The popular vote these issues Buchan
an, 1927 ,995; Fremont, 1,391,797; Fillmore, 934.
S16. OF the 296 electoral votes ia were cast for
Buchanan, ia for Fremont and for Fillmore.
During the administration of Buchanan history
bearing the slavery issue made rapidly
Significant events The Dred Scott decision
of the United States Supreme court that no negro
free or slave was citizen, with its implication
that the Missouri Compromise had always been
unconstitutional in its discrimination against slav
cry; the farcical vote in Kans,.f on the Lecomp
ton pro-slavery state constitution; the celebrated
"Freeport Debates of 1853 between Lincoln and
Douglas In the Illinois senatorial campaign, In
which Lincoln forced Douglas to uphold the doc
trine of popular sovereignty thus bringing about
his own election to the presidency and the defeat
of Douglas in 1860; the John Brown raid on Harp
er's Ferry in Virginia In 1859.
The result of the Freeport Debates" us Lincoln
had foreseen, was the splitting up of the Demo-
cratic Convention in April 1862 at Charleston, s.
c.. by the withdrawal of Chairman Gushing and
many Southern Democrats. The Charleston Con-
vention nominated Douglas. The seeding dele
gates held rump Democratic Convention in Balt-
more and nominated Breckenridge The platforms
of both conventions reafiirmed that of 1856
The Second National Republican Convention met
in The Wigwnm, Chicago, Nay 161S under the
chairmanship Of eX- Congressman George Ashmun of
Massachusetts. There three ballots for the
presidential nomination The result of the first
was: u. s. Senator William H. Seward of New
York, 1T3; Abraham Lincoln, 1922 U. s. Senator
Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, so; Ex-Governor
Salmon Z. Chase of Ohio 40; ex-Congressman Ed
ward Bates of Missouri, As; Gen William L. Day
ton of New Jersey, IA; U. s. Supreme Court Jus
tice John Mclean of Ohio, 10, and u. s. Senator
Jacob Collamer of Vermont, TO- On the second
ballot Seward got 1S4 and Lincoln ISL. During the
third ballot-when Seward had fallen to $50 and
Lincoln had risen to 231-William NJ Evarts chair
man of the New York delegation, moved that the
nomination of Lincoln be made unanimous The
465 delegates so voted. The nomination for vice
president went the second ballot TO U. S. Sen
ator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. The platform
denounced the Lecompton constitution (Kansas)
denounced slavery and denied the right of con-
gress to egalze 1t called for the admission of
Kansas, and spoke for tariff for revenue and to
protect Industrial development
The popular vote of the election of 1860 was:
Lincoln. 1,s66352 Douglas, 1,375,157; Breci<en-
ridge, S45,7G3; Bell (Union) 5S9,5S1. OF the 303
electoral $50 were cast for Lincoln; ~ for
Breckenridge; 80 for Bell, and IL for Douglas.
The election and Inauguration of Lincoln brought
the slavery issue to a head. The Civil war began
with the fall of Fort Sumter, April 13, 1860.
The Republican Convention of 1864 met In Balti-
more and unanimously renomnated Lincoln on the
first ballot Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was
nominated for vice president. Lincoln got 221G,O67
votes and Mcclellan, the Democratic candidate
1S0S7 725 In this election the following states did
not vote Alabama. Arkansas, Florida Georgia,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina Texas
and Virginia. Louisiana and Tennessee held cleo
tions and carried for Lincoln, but their vote
was not recognized. Lincoln was nssassnated
April H. 1865 Johnson thereupon became presl-
dent. He mpeached in 1868 and escaped by
vote of 35 to 49, one vote short of the necessary