{"id":3260,"date":"2010-10-15T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2010-10-15T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:56:04","slug":"election-of-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/10\/15\/election-of-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1860 &#8211; \u201cIllinois Sure for Douglas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5585\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3261\" title=\"Stephen Douglas\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/10\/HD_douglasSA5_1858-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/10\/HD_douglasSA5_1858-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/10\/HD_douglasSA5_1858.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a> In late October 1860 the (Montpelier) <em>Vermont Patriot<\/em> confidently predicted that Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5585\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Douglas<\/a> would win <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9044\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a>\u2019 electoral votes. \u201cIllinois has never yet voted against the Democratic party for President,\u201d as the  <em>Vermont Patriot<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/34475\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>.  Democratic papers like the <em>Vermont Patriot<\/em> argued that voters had to support Douglas in order to remain \u201chigh above the surges of fanaticism.\u201d This election, as the Springfield (IL) <em>State Register<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/34475\" target=\"_blank\"> explained<\/a>, would result in either \u201charmony between the States or discord and civil war.\u201d Yet on election day in 1860 Illinois went for the Republican ticket, Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. The <em>Vermont Patriot<\/em> would <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/34477\" target=\"_blank\">later describe<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9604\" target=\"_blank\">1860 contest<\/a> as \u201ca Presidential election without a parallel.\u201d\u00a0You can learn more about Stephen Douglas and the 1860 election in Robert Walter Johannsen&#8217;s <em>Stephen A. Douglas<\/em> (1973) and James L. Huston&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lNGheV6SuhIC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=Stephen%20A.%20Douglas%20and%20the%20Dilemmas%20of%20Democratic%20Equality&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality<\/a><\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late October 1860 the (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot confidently predicted that Senator Stephen Douglas would win Illinois\u2019 electoral votes. \u201cIllinois has never yet voted against the Democratic party for President,\u201d as the Vermont Patriot noted. Democratic papers like the Vermont Patriot argued that voters had to support Douglas in order to remain \u201chigh above the [&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":[80,171],"tags":[4756],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","tag-contests-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}