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The National Union Convention (5/9/1860)
New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/9/1860

Posted on 05/09/2020 6:51:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. BALTIMORE, Tuesday, May 8. There has been a large accession of delegates to-day, and a full representation from nearly every State is now expected. The feeling for HOUSTON is strongest, though Tennessee and some of the other States with whom Mr. BELL is the favorite will strenuously resist his nomination. The McLean interest is not strong, and there is carcely a probability of his nomination. New-York is a unit for HOUSTON, who now stands the best chance.

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1 posted on 05/09/2020 6:51:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 05/09/2020 6:53:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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3 posted on 05/09/2020 6:54:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The National Union party is now known as the Constitutional Union party, and it's usually forgotten in the narratives about Lincoln's Republicans versus Douglas Northern Democrats and Breckenridge Southern Democrats.

The Constitutional Union party was the old Southern Whig party and was vital in Whig presidential victories of 1840 & 1848.
When Whigs collapsed, mid-1850s, some Southern Whigs became Democrats, some became American Know-Nothings and by 1860 those in Border States coalesced as the National / Constitutional Union Party.

Mostly ignored today, they actually won more states and electoral votes than Douglas' Northern Democrats.
And they were critical to keeping Border States in the Union in 1861.

They demonstrated that, at least outside the cotton-South, there were Southern majorities who put National Union ahead of radical Democratic party pro-slavery ideology.

4 posted on 05/10/2020 4:53:28 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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