Democrats hold their National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina

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Democrats held their fractious National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, adjourning without a slate of candidates. They reassembled in Baltimore on June 18, 1860. (By Don Sailer)

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James L. Huston, Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007), 162-164.

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07/14/1858	New York Times, "Presidential Candidates," July 14, 1858
08/15/1858	New York Herald, “Political Joking," August 15, 1858
08/27/1858	Joseph Medill to Abraham Lincoln, August 27, 1858
11/07/1858	New York Herald, “Douglas for the Presidency,” November 7, 1858
12/05/1858	New York Herald, “The Struggle Among the Virginia Democracy,” December 5, 1858
12/11/1858	Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, December 11, 1858
01/12/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “For the Lambs of the Flock,” January 12, 1859
04/10/1859	New York Herald, “The Next Presidential Election,” April 10, 1859
04/11/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Democratic Prospects,” April 11, 1859
04/13/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “The Democracy and Non-Intervention,” April 13, 1859
04/20/1859	New York Herald, “The Charleston Convention,” April 20, 1859
05/03/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “An Opinion,” May 3, 1859
05/11/1859	New York Times, “When Did He Die?,” May 11, 1859
05/17/1859	New York Times, “Democratic Preparations for 1860,” May 17, 1859
06/08/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Another Dred Scott Decision,” June 8, 1859
06/16/1859	New York Times, “Political Letters,” June 16, 1859
07/04/1859	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “The Douglas Manifesto,” July 4, 1859
07/07/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Forney and Douglas,” July 7, 1859
07/27/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Douglas in Kentucky,” July 27, 1859
07/28/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Chances of Douglas,” July 28, 1859
07/31/1859	New York Herald,“Mr. Douglas and His Forthcoming Manifesto,” July 31, 1859
08/05/1859	New York Times, “An Unwise Letter,” August 5, 1859
08/07/1859	New York Herald, “The Morals of Politics,” August 7, 1859
09/11/1859	New York Herald, “Stump Candidates for the Presidency,” September 11, 1859
10/03/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Douglas in Mississippi,” October 3, 1859
10/15/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Charleston Convention,” October 15, 1859
10/17/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Where will they Go?,” October 17, 1859
11/09/1859	Hartford (CT) Courant, "Untitled," November 9, 1859
12/04/1859	New York Herald, “The South and Southern Safety,” December 4, 1859
12/08/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Virginia Wants the Nation to Foot Her Bills," December 8, 1859
12/11/1859	New York Herald, “Judge Douglas and the Administration,” December 11, 1859
12/23/1859	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Mr. Douglas and the Presidency,” December 23, 1859
01/28/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Paying the Piper,” January 28, 1860
02/22/1860	Raleigh (NC) Register, “How Firmly United the Democracy Are,” February 22, 1860
02/23/1860	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “What to do with Mr. Douglas,” February 23, 1860
03/02/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “The Chicago Convention,” March 2, 1860
03/05/1860	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Mr. Douglas’s Bid,” March 5, 1860
03/05/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Pennsylvania,” March 5, 1860
03/17/1860	New York Times, "Democratic National Convention," March 17, 1860
03/17/1860	(Montpelier) Vermont Patriot,“For President In 1860, Stephen A. Douglas,” March 17, 1860
03/18/1860	Philip Dandridge to Robert Hunter, March 18, 1860
03/24/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Charleston Convention,” March 24, 1860
03/26/1860	Henry Fitzhugh to Robert Hunter, March 26, 1860
03/26/1860	Charles Linsley to Robert Hunter, March 26, 1860
03/28/1860	New York Times, “A Political Reason for High Charges,” March 28, 1860
03/30/1860	Thomas L. Kane to Robert Hunter, March 30, 1860
03/31/1860	C.G. Baylor to Robert Hunter, March 31, 1860
04/03/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “The Last Revelation from Douglas,” April 3, 1860
04/19/1860	New York Times, “A Bomb-Shell for Charleston,” April 19, 1860
04/21/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Douglas Nomination,” April 21, 1860
04/22/1860	New York Herald, “The Republican Press on the Chances of Douglas,” April 22, 1860
04/24/1860	New York Times, “The Charleston Convention,” April 24, 1860
04/28/1860	New York Times, “Party Contests,” April 28, 1860
04/29/1860	New York Herald, “The Platform Crisis in Charleston,” April 29, 1860
05/01/1860	New York Times, “The Charleston Convention,” May 1, 1860
05/02/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Democratic Party Gone To Smash,” May 2, 1860
05/02/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Prophecy Fulfilled,” May 2, 1860
05/03/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Seceders at Charleston,” May 3, 1860
05/05/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Northern Democrat at a Slave Auction,” May 5, 1860
05/08/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Cause of the Smash,” May 8, 1860
05/09/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Coming Conventions,” May 9, 1860
05/10/1860	New York Times, “Disunion Plots,” May 10, 1860
05/12/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Charleston Convention,” May 12, 1860
05/18/1860	New York Times, “A Douglas Demonstration in New York,” May 18, 1860
05/22/1860	Charleston (SC) Courier, "A Great Error," May 22, 1860
05/23/1860	Raleigh (NC) Register, "The Giant Killer Reversing His Own Work," May 23, 1860
05/25/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Lincoln and Hamlin,” May 25, 1860
05/27/1860	New York Herald, “Bell and Everett Going Ahead,” May 27, 1860
05/28/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The New York Sun on Lincoln,” May 28, 1860
06/18/1860	New York Times, “The Baltimore Convention,” June 18, 1860
06/23/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “Noble Deeds of Northern Democracy,” June 23, 1860
07/19/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “An Important Change,” July 19, 1860
09/23/1860	New York Herald, “The Missouri Breckinridge State Convention,” September 23, 1860
10/08/1860	New York Herald, “Won't Submit to Lincoln,” October 8, 1860
10/21/1860	New York Herald, “American Sensations During 1860,” October 21, 1860
11/23/1860	John Sherman to William Tecumseh Sherman, November 26, 1860

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