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Constitutional Union Party Platform | The Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that Platforms adopted by the partisan Conventions of the country have had the effect to mislead and deceive the people, and at the same time to widen the political divisions of the country, by the creation and encouragement of geographical and sectional...
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Breckinridge Democratic Platform | The Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
1. That the Government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed...
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Douglas Democratic Platform | The Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
Document: Democratic Platform of 1860 (Douglas faction) June 18, 1860 Baltimore, Maryland 1. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic...
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1860 Republican Party Platform | The Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
1860 Republican Party Platform The 1860 Republican Party convention in Chicago created a platform that clearly opposed the expansion of slavery in the West and the reopening of the slave trade. However, nothing in the document claimed that the government had the power to eliminate slavery where...
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