In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
An Historic Election: "At Last The People Rule"
By Janet Evans
Thursday, Nov 6 2008, 06:54 PM
November 6, 1860: Lincoln becomes first Republican U.S. President
"Abraham Lincoln was elected to the U.S. presidency today. By defeating Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln became the first Republican president.
On November 7, 1860, the Dawsons Fort Wayne Daily Times reported election results along with the headline, "Republicans be Glad!" The paper continued: "But let wisdom and urbanity be the governing principle in your gladness. The victory is ours. Now let us merit it; and by wisdom and patriotism continue that policy, for without both, the change will not be to the people a reform, but a barren result."
“Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin are elected President and Vice President of the United States. We need add nothing to the world of meaning conveyed in these words,” reported The Berkshire County Eagle on November 8, 1860. “In that glorious fact are foreshadowed equal rights to every section and every class of freemen in the Union. The rights and interests of free labor are not to be sacrificed to an oligarchy of slaveholders; States are not to be excluded from the Union for establishing a free constitution; commerce, manufacturing, art, commercial intercourse, and internal improvements are no longer to be governed by sectional prejudice. Majorities are to rule, and the interests of many are not to be sacrificed to the prejudices of the few. At last the people rule.”
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Election Day 1860 Was One of Long Suspense
The Ada Evening News, November 6, 1960
