{"id":137,"date":"2008-06-27T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:59:00","slug":"%e2%80%9cbut-will-the-election-of-mr-lincoln-endanger-the-union%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/06\/27\/%e2%80%9cbut-will-the-election-of-mr-lincoln-endanger-the-union%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBut will the election of Mr. Lincoln endanger the Union?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/backissues.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic\u2019s archive<\/a> also has selected full text articles published between 1857 and November 1995. While a number of interesting articles are available, I wanted to point out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/policamp\/lowell.htm\" target=\"_blank\">one from the October 1860 issue<\/a>. A month before the November 1860 election, James Russell Lowell discussed the four candidates and potential outcomes. Lowell realized that \u201cthis election [was] a turning-point in our history\u201d because \u201c[even though] there [were] four candidates, there [were] really\u2026two parties, and a single question that divides them.\u201d While many Americans were concerned about a Republican victory, Lowell concluded that Abraham Lincoln \u201c[had] proved both his ability and his integrity&#8221; and his party &#8220;[had] no hostility to the South.&#8221; While thisarticle is a long one, some might be able to use it in their classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic\u2019s archive also has selected full text articles published between 1857 and November 1995. While a number of interesting articles are available, I wanted to point out one from the October 1860 issue. A month before the November 1860 election, James Russell Lowell discussed the four candidates and potential outcomes. Lowell realized that \u201cthis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}