Mr. SUMNER has been misinformed. Mr. LINCOLN did not come to New-York in February 1860, the time referred to, at the invitation of the Republican Union and it was not "under their auspices that ...

Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his career, he switched parties becoming the first Republican ...

A Republican lawyer from the backwoods who produced the most enduringly elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg ...

14, 1860. After nearly a week devoted to private business in this city, I yesterday visited Springfield and the President elect. A couple of personal friends, who were acquainted with Mr. LINCOLN ...

America’s secession winter, the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his inauguration the following ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.