CHARLESTON CONVENTION; PROGRESS OF THE RESOLUTIONARY WAR; The Platforms Recommitted and Three More Reported; The Douglas Men True to Their Faith (4/30/1860)

New York Times archives ^ | 4/30/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHARLESTON, Saturday, April 28. The darker the day, the darker the deed. A tremendous and windy storm has prevailed both inside and outside of the Convention. Prayer has been dispensed with, though the same cannot be said of imprecation.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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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Charleston Convention – 2
The View at Washington – 2
Another Speech of Mayor Wood – 2
The California Pony Express – 2
Police Reports – 2
Staten Island – 2-3

[dangus]

The Charleston Convention exposes as Confederate propaganda that the Civil War was sparked by Lincoln’s aggressiveness. The anti-Douglas groups knew with certainty that any split among the Democrats would guarantee the Republicans winning the election. (As it was, Lincoln won a majority of electoral votes, but the discord among the Democrats might have cost them Pennsylvania; you can also see the plain unionist Democrat sympathy in the New York Times, here.) Yet even as Douglas won clear majority after clear majority of the vote, the insurrectionists denied him his victory, because he was too moderate. They wanted war, and a Lincoln victory would give them the pretext.

Within the year, Lincoln would withdraw union forces from most Deep-Southern army bases; his last troops dug in at Charleston, awaiting rescue to the North... and there they were attacked without provocation.

[nwrep]

Prayer has been dispensed with, though the same cannot be said of imprecation.

Sounds like the Dem party of the 19th century was no different than the Dem party of the 21st century.