{"id":2912,"date":"2010-07-16T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:36:31","slug":"election-of-1860-republican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/16\/election-of-1860-republican-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1860 – Republican National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Republicans selected Abraham Lincoln<\/a> as their candidate for the 1860 at their convention in Chicago<\/a>, Illinois, but few newspaper editors had predicted that outcome in the months before the convention. One of the other prominent Republican politicians, such as New York Senator William Seward<\/a>, seemed to be the more likely choice. While the Republican Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel<\/em> admitted <\/a>that \u201cit was not yet clear who the Chicago nominee may be,\u201d they believed that \u201cthe chances [were] decidedly in favor of Senator Seward.\u201d The San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin<\/em> had a similar opinion. \u201cWe have on previous occasions stated our well-settled conviction that Mr. Seward would certainly be the candidate,\u201d as the Evening Bulletin<\/em> concluded<\/a>. The Democratic Raleigh (NC) Standard<\/em> went so far as to explain <\/a>that \u201cSeward has in all probability been nominated\u201d several days after the convention had actually selected Lincoln. Yet some editors had warned that selecting someone like Senator Seward would be a mistake.\u201cThe nomination of a Radical<\/em> Republican for President may result in the loss of even the New England States,\u201d as the Republican Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune<\/em> observed<\/a>. Seward was one of the radicals that the Press and Tribune<\/em> was referring to. While Seward was a prominent politician, some Republicans considered him a liability. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison<\/a> publicly supported<\/a> Seward, which only reinforced the idea that Seward was a radical. If Republican wanted to win in November 1860, it seemed that a moderate had the best chance of getting enough votes. As the Democratic Newark (OH) Advocate<\/em> concluded<\/a> explained,\u00a0Republicans selected Lincoln \u201cwith the sole aim of getting the votes of men who could never have been brought to the support of [radicals like] Chase<\/a>, Seward, or Giddings<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans selected Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the 1860 at their convention in Chicago, Illinois, but few newspaper editors had predicted that outcome in the months before the convention. One of the other prominent Republican politicians, such as New York Senator William Seward, seemed to be the more likely choice. While the Republican Milwaukee […]<\/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-2912","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\/2912","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=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}