{"id":3313,"date":"2010-11-17T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2010-11-29T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:50:23","slug":"election-of-1860-cumberland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/11\/17\/election-of-1860-cumberland-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1860 – Cumberland County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Abraham Lincoln<\/a> was elected \u201cby one of the largest voter turnouts in United States history,\u201d historian Phillip Shaw Paludan notes that \u201cthe Republican victory was entirely sectional.\u201d Lincoln and Hannibal Hamblin<\/a> did not receive any votes from the Deep South states. Yet divisions also existed within northern states, including Cumberland County<\/a>, Pennsylvania. The election results for Carlisle <\/a>reflected a deep divide in the community \u2013 while Republicans won the town (overall votes in Carlisle West Ward \/ East Ward), Democrats received the most votes overall in Carlisle District (For more details, see election return tables below). As for Cumberland County, Lincoln received 51.5% of the vote in Cumberland County. These results largely correspond with historians\u2019 arguments about urban and rural voting patterns in the 1860 election. While \u201cone might expect to find northern cities to have been stronghold of Republicanism,\u201d David Potter argues <\/a>that \u201cLincoln received much less support in the urban North than he did in the rural North.\u201d Republicans received the most votes by far in the rural precincts of Cumberland County and came very close to losing Carlisle. One can see which precinct Lincoln’s party won in the map below — precincts that Republicans won have blank backgrounds.\u00a0This map was originally published in John Wesley Weigel\u2019s \u201cFree Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County,\u201d Cumberland County History Journal<\/em> (Summer 2000). The full article, along with other essays that explore the political history of the Whigs and Democrats in Cumberland County, are available on this post<\/a> as PDF files.<\/p>\n

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\n(Click on the map to see larger version)<\/em>
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\nIn addition, you can click the “Continue Reading” link below to see the detailed election returns for Cumberland County, Carlisle District, and Newville District below – <\/p>\n

Cumberland County<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cumberland
\nCounty<\/td>\n		Lincoln<\/td>\nRead’s Ticket<\/td>\nBell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlisle District*<\/td>\n886<\/td>\n907<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newville District<\/td>\n453<\/td>\n670<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upper Allen<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lower Allen<\/td>\n103<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Pennsboro<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plainfield<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Penn Township<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hampden<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hopewell<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mechanicsburg<\/td>\n130<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N. Cumberland<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monroe<\/td>\n117<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shippensburg Dist.<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leesburg<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacksonville<\/td>\n<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Silver Spring<\/td>\n<\/td>\n166<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n2083<\/td>\n1671<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*Straight Douglas, 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Details for Carlisle District<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Carlisle
\nDistrict<\/td>\n		Lincoln<\/td>\nRead’s Ticket<\/td>\nBell<\/td>\nStraight Douglas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
East Ward<\/td>\n167<\/td>\n222<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
West Ward<\/td>\n258<\/td>\n183<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Middleton<\/td>\n268<\/td>\n[233?]<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Middleton<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n[105?]<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dickinson<\/td>\n97<\/td>\n122<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frankford<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n886<\/td>\n907<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Details for Newville District<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Carlisle
\nDistrict<\/td>\n		Lincoln<\/td>\nRead’s Ticket<\/td>\nBell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Borough<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frankford<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mifflin<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n169<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newton<\/td>\n128<\/td>\n[169?]<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W. Pennsboro<\/td>\n116<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n463<\/td>\n576<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Abraham Lincoln was elected \u201cby one of the largest voter turnouts in United States history,\u201d historian Phillip Shaw Paludan notes that \u201cthe Republican victory was entirely sectional.\u201d Lincoln and Hannibal Hamblin did not receive any votes from the Deep South states. Yet divisions also existed within northern states, including Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The election […]<\/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":[77,156,174],"tags":[169,4756],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-images","category-recent-scholarship","tag-carlisle-dickinson","tag-contests-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","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=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}