gives background on the other candidates, and discusses the liberations at the party conventions. abe lincoln won the presidency over three other candidates, with just under 40% of the popular vote. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. all right, so we have lincolns ancestors over here. we ve got them born, we ve got them moved around in elected office. we ve got them married. it s time to elect him president. today we are going to look at the election of 1860. using the term, everybody second choice, at the national convention that year in 1860, a lincoln supporter send a wire that said, i think he s going to win the nomination. he is the second choice of everybody. well, lincoln himself had a line . my name is new in the field and i suppose i am not the first choice of a very great many. our policy then is to give no offense to others, lead them to come to us, if they should be compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there, giving u
over here and we got them married and it is time to elect him president and today we re going to look at the election of 1860 and using the term of everybody s second choice at the national convention a lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think he s going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions
the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. and we will get to those as we go along. we will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a key issue both leading up to the election and then in the out come. this next one might ma
lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think he s going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i m not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i m going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. they actually ran a very well organized campaign. and at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, don t do anything to stop him. in this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. and we will get to those as we go along. we will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a
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