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Okla-homey
11/6/2008, 08:11 AM
November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected president

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148 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but that plurality handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.

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Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and former Whig representative to Congress, first gained national stature during his campaign against Stephen Douglas of Illinois for a failed U.S. Senate seat bid in 1858. The senatorial campaign featured a remarkable series of public encounters on the slavery issue, known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery, while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become free or slave.

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Lincoln lost the Senate race, but his campaign brought national attention to the young Republican Party. In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination.

In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. The announcement of Lincoln's victory signaled the secession of the Southern states, which since the beginning of the year had been publicly threatening secession if the Republicans gained the White House because they believed the Republicans were bent on outlawing slavery.

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By the time of Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been formally established, with Jefferson Davis as its elected president.

One month later, the American Civil War began when Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1863, as the tide turned against the Confederacy, Lincoln emancipated slaves held in the rebellious states, and in 1864, Lincoln won reelection.

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In April 1865, he was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after the American Civil War effectively ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox.

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For preserving the Union and bringing an end to slavery, and for his unique character and powerful oratory, Lincoln is universally hailed as one of the greatest American presidents.

bri
11/6/2008, 08:13 AM
Cue SicEm in 5...4...3...2....

:D

TUSooner
11/6/2008, 10:09 AM
I'd say the Republicans could use another Lincoln. Think they can find one by 2012?

bri
11/6/2008, 12:32 PM
Oh, I'm sure they could. They just have to stop thinking with their d*cks, otherwise they'll just trot out Spank Bait '08 again. :D

mdklatt
11/6/2008, 12:43 PM
:pop:

mdklatt
11/6/2008, 12:46 PM
I'd say the Republicans could use another Lincoln. Think they can find one by 2012?

They sold their soul to the racist Dixiecrats in the 70s. How long is that going to take to fix, and do they even have any desire to do so?

OklahomaTuba
11/6/2008, 12:46 PM
I'd say the Republicans could use another Lincoln. Think they can find one by 2012?

Doubtful.

But I think the donks just found themselves another Jimmah Carter.

OklahomaTuba
11/6/2008, 12:48 PM
They sold their soul to the racist Dixiecrats in the 70s. How long is that going to take to fix, and do they even have any desire to do so?

Like Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father?

mdklatt
11/6/2008, 12:54 PM
Like Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father?

So I say there is a tradition of racism among Southern Democrats, and you name at least one Southern Democrat with a history of racism (don't know anything about Al Gore's father), and I guess this is supposed to be a "gotcha"? Or are you agreeing with me?

KC//CRIMSON
11/6/2008, 12:57 PM
Oh, I'm sure they could. They just have to stop thinking with their d*cks, otherwise they'll just trot out Spank Bait '08 again. :D


Except this time she'll have a giant plastic rack and be sporting a monocle!

OklahomaTuba
11/6/2008, 01:00 PM
So I say there is a tradition of racism among Southern Democrats, and you name at least one Southern Democrat with a history of racism (don't know anything about Al Gore's father), and I guess this is supposed to be a "gotcha"? Or are you agreeing with me?
No, just debunking your strawman sterotyping of "racist southerners" by giving you an actual example.

mdklatt
11/6/2008, 01:03 PM
No, just debunking your strawman sterotyping of "racist southerners" by giving you an actual example.

So you "debunked" my assertion that there are racist Southern Democrats by giving two examples of racist Southern Democrats? :confused:

Debunking: I don't think this work means what you think it means.

bri
11/6/2008, 01:03 PM
Except this time she'll have a giant plastic rack and be sporting a monocle!

Dude, I get half of one just thinking about that.

COME ON, SOCIALIZED BOOB JOBS!!!

:D

picasso
11/6/2008, 01:30 PM
Lincoln allowed the killing of a lot of Injuns but who didn't back then?

soonervegas
11/6/2008, 01:36 PM
I read Team of Rivals this summer. Good book.