CHARLESTON CONVENTIONS; The National Delegates Adjourn to Baltimore; NO NOMINATION EFFECTED; Gen. Cushing Pours Oil on the Troubled Waters (5/4/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/4/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHARLESTON, Thursday, May 3. The attendance at the Convention, this morning, was very slim. Many delegates went away, this morning, by the early train. All parties are disgusted and worn out. The Douglas strength controls the Democratic Party, and without it nothing can be done.

[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.

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Charleston Conventions – 2
The National Convention – 2
The Sectional Convention – 2-3
How the Disruption is Viewed At the Capitol – 3
Sympathy With the Seceders – 3
Sentiment in New Orleans – 3
Result of the Ballotings – 3
The Adjournment a Douglas Movement – 3
Editorial: The Disruption of the Democratic Party – 3-4
New-Jersey – 4
Staten Island – 4
Fatal Steamboat Explosion – 4

[wrcase]

This cannot be the New York Times. I did not see the words “Trump racist” anywhere. Also, nothing about women and minorities hardest hit.

[TBP]

There were two Democrat tickets, one headed by Vice President John C. Breckinridge, the other by Senator Steven Douglas. And there was the last remnant of the Whigs, called the Constitutional Union Party, led by a man named John Bell.

Lincoln won in that divided field.

[TBP]

Charleston Convention Adjourns Due to Trump Racism; Delegates Move to Baltimore. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

Is that better?

[Western Phil]

Is it just my imagination or are there a lot of steamboat explosions?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Seems like almost a daily occurrence.

[wrcase]

Now that’s the New York Times I’m used to.

[TBP]

Except the last prat should have been a subhead, probably in italics.

[BroJoeK]

"...there was the last remnant of the Whigs, called the Constitutional Union Party, led by a man named John Bell."

Former Tennessee Senator John Bell's Constitutional Union Party was a big deal in Border States and he could actually carry more states & win more electoral votes than Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas.

Bell illustrates why Tennessee and other Upper South states will refuse to secede over slavery or anything else, but then could flip sides if the Union threatens military actions.

Bell's home town was Nashville, Tennessee, just west of the rough dividing line within Tennessee between the Unionist East and Confederate West.
Near as I can tell, after the events of early 1861 Bell played no further role in politics and died in 1869, age 73.