Posted on 11/01/2016 4:47:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from June 19 (reply #27)
The general election resulted in a three-way race between the Republican Fremont, the Southern-leaning Democrat James Buchanan, and American Party candidate Millard Fillmore. When the votes were counted, Weed’s advice to Seward proved correct. Though the Republican Party showed considerable strength throughout the North in its first national effort, winning eleven states, the South threw its strength behind Democrat James Buchanan, who emerged the victor. In addition to his overwhelming strength in the South, Buchanan captured four Northern states – Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey – the states destined to be the battleground in the 1860 election. Fillmore and the American Party captured only tiny Maryland.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
I posted my book report on this book back on August 27 (reply #95)
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One
Continued from August 19 (reply #84)
James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life
Continued from September 14 (reply 15).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly
At the time of the 1860 election, Sherman was serving as head of what is now known as Louisiana State University (located at the time in Pineville, LA, across the Red River from Alexandria.)
Rather surprised both Sherman and Grant voted Buchanan. It is revealing in Sherman’s case that he voted Buchanan because he knew Fremont. Much of what Sherman said about Fremont seems to have panned out when Fremont became Viceroy of Missouri during the Civil War.
The first shoe of the Civil War has dropped with the election of Buchanan. The second one will drop with the decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
OK, six pings in a row. I get the point. I’ll stop playing hooky and come to class. Give me some time to do the make-up reading from the beginning of the year.
Sorry for the avalanche, but all the excerpts came together on one day. There are only 2 more multiple post days in 1856 and both only have 2 posts.
With the election safely behind us the oral arguments for Dred Scott v. Sandford are scheduled for the middle of next month.
:-)
Good work.
I have some reading to do.
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That's exactly what the Obama administration says about opposition to abortion ... but I'm sure US Grant, a decent man, could never have imagined this.
[Post-emancipation] [t]he nation still lives, and the people are just as free to avoid social intimacy with the blacks as ever they were, or as they are with white people.
Time marches on, Gen. Grant. Now, the Federal government tells you with whom you may avoid intimacy, and with whom intimacy is mandatory, based on a set of criteria that changes so quickly that even they can't keep up with it.
This all reminds me of the Federal period, about which I have recently been reading. All sorts of local and regional disasters were stewing, most famously Aaron Burr’s ersatz war with Spain, and local, state, and federal authorities were left constantly in a tizzy.
Note Mr. Strong’s use of “Rat candidate.” LOL!
Homer, your election post comes so close to our realtime 2016 election that I still find it fascinating despite the photobucket issue. Thanks for the treat!
I’m trying to decide if I should accept that Hillary is going to win this election, and if so, should we look for an obscure country lawyer to emerge during the next 4 years to take up the Republican torch in 2020.
Today's post makes it more clear in my mind why the Republicans chose that country lawyer. They lost Illinois and Indiana in 1856 and needed to carry them in 1860.
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