{"id":3233,"date":"2010-09-28T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T19:30:38","slug":"election-of-1860-mr-lincoln-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/09\/28\/election-of-1860-mr-lincoln-a-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1860 – “Mr. Lincoln A Black Man”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When European newspapers discussed Abraham Lincoln’s<\/a> victory in the\u00a0Election of 1860<\/a>, their reporters did not always provide the correct\u00a0details. In January 1861 the (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot<\/em> highlighted a mistake<\/a> in an editorial from the Drogheda (Ireland) Argus<\/em>, which discussed the implications of \u201ca black Man\u2019s\u201d victory for the United States. \u201cNo Presidential election has excited so much party feelings as has the election of Abraham Lincoln, a black gentleman<\/em>,\u201d as the Argus<\/em> noted. The paper also claimed that Lincoln had been \u201cunknown out of [Illinois]\u201d before the 1860 election. While he might have been \u201cunknown as a public man in Europe,\u201d Lincoln had emerged as a national political figure during the Lincoln Douglas debates<\/a> in 1858. After returning home to New York in July 1858, Charles H. Ray described<\/a> how those outside Illinois were interested in Lincoln and the campaign:<\/p>\n

“In my journey here from Chicago, and even here [in Norwich, New York]– one of the most out-of-the-way, rural districts in the State, among a slow-going and conservative people, who are further from railroads than any man can be in Illinois — I have found hundreds of anxious enquirers burning to know all about the newly raised-up opponent of Douglas\u2026 In fact, you have sprung at once from the position of a “capital fellow” and a “leading lawyer” in Illinois<\/span>, to the enjoyment of a national reputation. Your speeches are read with great avidity by all political men\u2026”<\/p>\n

You can read more about Lincoln and his political career in Edwin Erie Sparks\u2019 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858<\/a><\/em> <\/a>(1908), David Donald\u2019s Lincoln<\/a><\/em> <\/a>(1995), and Allen C. Guelzo\u2019s Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America<\/a><\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When European newspapers discussed Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the\u00a0Election of 1860, their reporters did not always provide the correct\u00a0details. In January 1861 the (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot highlighted a mistake in an editorial from the Drogheda (Ireland) Argus, which discussed the implications of \u201ca black Man\u2019s\u201d victory for the United States. \u201cNo Presidential election has excited […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}