A blog post by Jamie Malanowski in the New York Times’ “Disunion” series featured this political cartoon from House Divided’s image collection. In this entry Malanowski explores Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 election. Malanowski’s post is part of a new series that, as the New York Times explains, “revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous […]
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New York Times Features House Divided Image
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Election of 1860 – Carlisle American Volunteer
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsWhen Democrats held a rally in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1860, the Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer reported that no one had been ready for the “overwhelming avalanche” of delegates from “every town and township in the county.” Over 8,000 people filled the streets before noon, according to some estimates. The American Volunteer backed Senator […]
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Election of 1860 – “Illinois Sure for Douglas”
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Historic PeriodicalsIn late October 1860 the (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot confidently predicted that Senator Stephen Douglas would win Illinois’ electoral votes. “Illinois has never yet voted against the Democratic party for President,” as the Vermont Patriot noted. Democratic papers like the Vermont Patriot argued that voters had to support Douglas in order to remain “high above the […]
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Election of 1860 – Ulysses S. Grant
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Images, Letters & DiariesThe Ulysses S. Grant Association at Mississippi State University has digitized all 31 volumes included in the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. This project also offers a chronology and a nice collection of images. In August 1860 Grant observed that “the Democratic party want a little purifying and nothing will do it so effectually as […]
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While previous posts have discussed political cartoons from American publications like Harpers Weekly, Punch was a popular periodical in England. Art Historian Allan T. Kohl works at Minneapolis College of Art & Design and has put together an interesting collection of Punch’s “principal cartoons” related to the Civil War. Weekly editions “featured a principal cartoon, […]
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The Complicated Partisan Realities of 1860
Posted by Matthew Pinsker Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsOne hundred and fifty years ago today, the Charles Town, Virgina (there wasn’t a West Virginia yet)Free Press commented on reports that the state’s Breckinridge Democrats had abandoned a plank from their “national” party platform by repudiating support for the Pacific Railroad. This one little piece of fewer than 200 words illustrates how complicated the […]
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Election of 1860 – Hinton Rowan Helper
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic Periodicals, Rare BooksEven though Hinton Rowan Helper published The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It in 1857, the book was still a factor in the election of 1860. While Helper was born in North Carolina to a family that owned more than 200 slaves, he used the Impending Crisis to call for the South […]
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Election of 1860 – Southerners Unionists
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsWhile some southern editors argued before election day in November 1860 that a Republican victory would justify secession, the Fayetteville (NC) Observer was prepared to accept Abraham Lincoln as President. The Observer, which supported Constitutional Union candidates John Bell and Edward Everett, believed that there was no choice but to accept the results of an […]
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Delia Locke Diaries (1855-1879)
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & DiariesWhen Delia Locke and her husband moved to northern California in 1855, she started a diary that she continued to write in until her death in 1922. Thanks to the University of the Pacific, her diary entries between 1855 and 1879 are available online. Locke not only recorded detailed observations about daily life, but she […]
