Abraham Lincoln would go on to win the election and become president.ĭefinition: Broadsides were posters, announcing events or proclamations, or simply advertisements.Ĭitation: Democratic ticket: Our Principles, the Constitution.
Breckinridge received 74,379 votes (44.46 percent) in Virginia. The vote totals published in the Daily Richmond Enquirer on December 24, 1860, showed that John C. Breckinridge and Lane won most of the Southern states but finished a close second in Virginia which was considered to be the closest presidential election in state history. He also approved of the expansion of slavery into the territories. Introduction: Immediately following the Civil War and adoption of the 13th Amendment, most states of the former Confederacy adopted Black Codes, laws modeled on. Joseph Lane, his running mate, represented the Oregon Territory in the United States House of Representatives.
They also called for the annexation of Cuba and the construction of a transcontinental railroad.Ī Kentucky native, Breckinridge believed that slavery should be constitutionally protected and that Southern states had the right to secede. The party's platform further affirmed the right of the federal government to protect the rights of slaveholders in the states and territories. The Southern Democratic party advocated for the expansion of slavery into the territories and strong enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Breckinridge, The Vice President under Buchanan, who wanted to expand enslavement into the West. The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas on a platform which would allow each territory to decide whether to permit enslavement. In 1860, the Democratic party split into two factions over the issue of enslavement.
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