Democrats hold their National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina, 1857, zoomable map

04/23/1860 - 05/01/1860

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

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