{"id":418,"date":"2010-08-16T19:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-08-16T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:37:49","slug":"cumberland-county-political-history-1847-1860-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/cumberland-county-political-history-1847-1860-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberland County Political History (1847-1860)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/political_cartoon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/political_cartoon-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/08\/political_cartoon-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/08\/political_cartoon.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Weigel, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Weigel1998.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Americans Shall Rule America!\u2019 The Know-Nothing Party in Cumberland County<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 15 (1998): 3-18. <\/p>\n<p>John Weigel, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Weigel2000summer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Free Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 17 (2000): 36-57. <\/p>\n<p>John Weigel, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Wiegel2000winter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In Defense of Union and White Supremacy: The Democratic Alternative to Free Soil, 1847 \u2013 1860<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 17 (2000): 103-117. <\/p>\n<p>In a series of three essays John Wesley Weigel traces the political history of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania between the late 1840s and the Republican victory in the Presidential election of 1860. Weigel\u2019s articles are based in large part on primary sources, in particular three local newspapers: Carlisle (PA) <em>Herald<\/em> , Carlisle (PA) <em>American Volunteer<\/em>, and the Shippensburg (PA) <em>News<\/em>. All three articles include extensive endnotes. Weigel\u2019s essay of the rise of the Republican party in Cumberland county includes two maps and a graph related to voter turnout. In addition, Weigel provides two detailed charts that breakdown Cumberland county votes by party between 1839 and 1873.<\/p>\n<p><em>These essays have been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Weigel, \u201c\u2018Americans Shall Rule America!\u2019 The Know-Nothing Party in Cumberland County,\u201d Cumberland County History 15 (1998): 3-18. John Weigel, \u201cFree Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County,\u201d Cumberland County History 17 (2000): 36-57. John Weigel, \u201cIn &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/cumberland-county-political-history-1847-1860-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cumberland County Political History (1847-1860)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[186,198],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","tag-carlisle","tag-shippensburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}