Editorial: The Presidential Contest (6/11/1860)

The Democratic cauldron is beginning to boil again. The time for another attempt at nominating a Presidential candidate is close at hand. The Southern veins of the party meets this week at Richmond. -- the Northern wing next week at Baltimore. The Richmond convocation will be merely preliminary. It will do nothing of any consequence, but will await the action of the Baltimoreans Possibly it may pass some resolutions, -- declare the unalterable determination of the Southern Democrats never to surrender the ground they took at Charleston, and make a tender of renewed harmony on these conditions. But they will make no nominations, and take no decisive action in advance of the other Convention.

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

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June 10, 1860. Nashville Union and American, Nashville, Tennessee. A county Democrat meeting recognizes the Cincinnati Platform and Dred Scott decision as the National Democrat Platform in column 2, and with the Georgia Democrat Convention in column 3. Report of a duel, one of the duelists hit by four buckshot – column 2. Can John Bell be elected President by the House? – column 3.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038518/1860-06-10/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=06%2F10%2F1860&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Democratic+Democrats+Dred+duel+platform+Platform+slave&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F10%2F1860&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=slave+platform+Democrat+duel+dred&dateFilterType=range&page=1

June 11, 1860. The Daily Exchange, Baltimore, MD. Two articles on possible threat to Senator Sumner – column 3. Douglas movement in Massachusetts and further down some territorial and slave property arguments – columns 4 and 5. Letters to and from “Abram” Lincoln and the Republican Convention concerning his nomination – column 5. Baltimore Convention and Disunion – do the convention one way and Lincoln will be elected, do it another way and he won’t – column 6.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83009573/1860-06-11/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2F11%2F1860&index=0&date2=06%2F11%2F1860&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=1&words=1854+disunion+Disunion+Douglas+DOUGLAS+Lincoln+LINCOLN+property+PROPERTY+slave+slaves+south+South+Sumner+Territorial+territorial+territories+Territories+territory+Territory+Yancey&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=Douglas+1854+slave+property+Yancey+Lincoln+territory+South+Disunion+Sumner&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

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