And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig
Hint of a see breeze at 77 in San Francisco, 60s at Half Moon Bay but inland still above 100 degrees. So excessive heat warning should be done as of 9 00 but starting at 10 00 is the red flag warning for the bay area alove a thousand feet. Increasing wind where we have a wind advisory from 5 00 a. M. To 11 00. And the gusts could be in the 45 to 60mileperhour range, that is the highest fire range zone. Norther napa county, here are the reason why, the humidity levels below 10 during the morning tomorrow. Well talk more about the red flag conditions and when relief could come in terms of cooler temperatures in about 15 minutes from now. Back to you. Thank you very much. And again were waiting for the News Conference from pga. 21 Northern California counties are bracing for blackouts but it doesnt have to do anything with the stressed power grid. This time it is about fire danger and winds. Pg e may intentionally cut off power to reduce the threat of new wildfires being sparked. Most of
Masks in public chile peru and mexico have also been reporting record new cases out asunder apaches in the colombian capital bogota with more. Throughout the region there has been a reopening of the economies of important sectors of the economy. Faster in some countries there and then another about it its clear that after more than 2 months in some cases even 3 months of stricter measures that it wasnt possible to continue doing this same more people as been going back to back to work more people are on the streets the other reason is that these are countries with a Large Population that works informally then needs to be out and about to make ends meet on a daily basis so these 2 things the formal the reopening of parts of the formal and condominium the return to the streets of these large sections of the population that work informally might explain what weve been seeing happening not only in brazil that of course accounts for the largest portion of the cases but also in countries tha
Of alabama just to make it clear thats all on the east coast of the United States and early results show that former Vice President joe biden has taken the state of virginia lets go a little bit up further to vermont right there of that is for Bernie Sanders is the sitting senator since 2007 been a member of caught represented in Congress Since 1901 yes he is also going to win his home state so by this projected to win at least 16 of the 99 delegates that are up for grabs in virginia you win a state but you dont get all of the delegates allocated proportionately so right now this is where the number stand joe biden is leading with 69 delegates actually ahead of Bernie Sanders this may or may not last but thats actually the 1st time this has happened since we all began this a few weeks ago Bernie Sanders and 68 and the senator from massachusetts Elizabeth Warren right now its 8 delegates the magic number they need to get to is 1991 not tonight there are still many more contests but over