CHARLESTON CONVENTION; PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD DAY; THE WOOD DELEGATION EXCLUDED; TRIUMPH OF THE DOUGLAS PARTY (4/26/1860)

New York Times archives ^ | 4/26/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 25. Ex-Gov. ROBINSON, of Vermont, died of apoplexy at the Mills House last night. The vote on the New-York case is as follows: Twenty-three against WOOD, and seven for him, three not voting. North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas and California voted for him. Oregon and Louisiana dodged. New-York, of course, did not vote.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Charleston Convention – 2
Editorial: The Lemmon Slave Case – 2-3
Editorial: The End of a Confidence Game – 3
Editorial: Conflict of Ideas – 3-4
City Intelligence (from page 8 of the Times) - 4

[M Kehoe]

You have been busy today.

Much to review.

5.56mm

[colorado tanker]

Fernando Wood was Mayor of New York and a pro-slavery Democrat, a Tammany Hall machine politician. As we have seen, he tried to steal seats at the 1860 Charleston Convention.

During the Civil War he will be a leading Copperhead who advocated New York City secede so it could maintain its trade with the South to maintain the revenues that fueled patronage.

After the War he would serve in Congress. Wood would be a leading opponent of the 13th Amendment.

A real piece of work, that.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

George Templeton Strong can’t stand him.

[colorado tanker]

Wood is Exhibit A that the Democrat line that all Jim Crow Democrats were Southerners is a lie.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

You have been busy today.

The Democrats have been busy.

It is no accident that Bruce Catton elected to open his Civil War narrative with the Democratic National Convention. It is the kick-off. All that went before - Harper's Ferry, Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, all the way back to the ratification of the Constitution, could be seen as prelude. Another way through slavery might have been found. But it is clear that a Republican win in November is sure to lead to secession which, in turn, will lead to war. The events in Charleston, Baltimore and Richmond will ensure a Republican win.

[colorado tanker]

Excellent points, Homer. In the past, my Civil War reading has focused on the military history. Your threads have been very illuminating about the events that preceded the decisions to go to war.