The Opposition Party of the state of Delaware met in Dover to select delegates for the Republican Convention in Chicago. The meeting also pronounced itself for the Union, against the extension of slavery into the territories, and for the Homestead Bill. (By John Osborne)
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Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 361.
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