{"id":3093,"date":"2010-07-28T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2010-07-30T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:44:17","slug":"partisan-fear-mongering-in-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/28\/partisan-fear-mongering-in-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Fear-mongering in 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33150\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3098\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_Heir1860CandI.preview1-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_Heir1860CandI.preview1-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_Heir1860CandI.preview1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After what could only be mildly described as a tumultuous decade of <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/2049\">failed compromises<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/40\">rise of a new political party<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/1559\">disgruntled citizenry<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9604\">1860 Election<\/a> season met with the pronounced fears over the future course of the United States. Partisan newspapers relished the opportunity to hack away at their opponents by castigating their political views and theorizing on pressing social fears within the South. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33268\">Chicago <em>Press and Tribune<\/em> <\/a>noted that the \u201cslave breeders\u201d of the South feared a Republican party in their midst that could claim Founders as part of its political pedigree. The article also cites an undated piece from the New Orleans <em>Courier <\/em>which speculated that if Republicans proved victorious in the upcoming election, Southerners would have to openly embrace the patronage positions offered them as members of a new Southern Republican \u201cnucleus.\u201d (Ironically,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33753\">Lincoln and his cabinet <\/a>maintained their hope in a <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24547\">latent Southern Unionism in Virginia<\/a> that would dissuade the Upper South from seceding.)  \u00a0Other fears for the upcoming election literally struck at the belly of the South. Again, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33311\">Chicago <em>Press and Tribune<\/em><\/a> stated that a \u00a0\u201cpoor corn-crop\u201d would precede a potential famine in the upcoming year. Instead of stoking this fear in their hearts, Southerners could remain \u201cpatriots and good citizens\u2019 by \u201cbehaving themselves\u201d in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/13920\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>\u2019s election. However, the\u00a0<em>Press and Tribune<\/em> cynically mused that the \u201cdissolution\u201d of the Union would only be averted until the South had a \u201cfull crop.\u201d Articles in partisan papers such as the Chicago  <em>Press and Tribune<\/em> reveal the broad spectrum of fears endemic to the United States in the months leading up to the Election of 1860.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After what could only be mildly described as a tumultuous decade of failed compromises, the rise of a new political party, and a disgruntled citizenry, the 1860 Election season met with the pronounced fears over the future course of the United States. Partisan newspapers relished the opportunity to hack away at their opponents by castigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","category-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}