THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS; Letters of Acceptance of Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin (6/9/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 6/9/1860

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The following is the correspondence between the officers of the Republican National Convention and the candidates thereof for President and Vice-President: CHICAGO, May 18, 1860. To the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois: SIR: The representatives of the Republican Party of the United States, assembled in conversion at Chicago, have this day, by an unanimous vote, selected you as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the United States, to be supported at the next election; and the undersigned were appointed a Committee of the Convention to apprize you of this nomination, and respectfully to request that you will accept it. A declaration of the principles and sentiments adopted by the Convention accompanies this communication.

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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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The Republican Nominations: Letters of Acceptance of Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin – 2
Editorial: The Sorrows of a Candidate – 2-3
Blondin at Niagara – 3
The Rumor of Yellow Fever – 3
Explosion of a Pyrotechnic Factory – 3-4
City Intelligence – 4
Brooklyn Intelligence – 4

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June 9, 1860. North Carolina Standard, Raleigh, North Carolina. The True Issue: the issue is not squatter sovereignty, nor slavery in the territories, nor ad valorem taxation – it is whether the Union shall endure and whether the South will be able to hold their slave property undisturbed – column 2. What will Lincoln do as President – column 2
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045450/1860-06-09/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=06%2F09%2F1860&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=cotton+Cotton+North+NORTH+revenue+Slave+slave+slaves+south+South+tax+taxing&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F09%2F1860&ortext=revenue+tax+south+slaves+north+cotton+rice&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

June 9, 1860. The Cecil Whig, Elkton, Maryland. Quotes from 13 mostly Southern newspapers that support Bell for President – column 3. Use of a microscope to convict a murderer – column 4.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016348/1860-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2F09%2F1860&index=3&date2=06%2F09%2F1860&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=1&words=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1