Democrats in California were seriously and acrimoniously split over the Douglas and Breckinridge presidential nominations. The state party committee held a meeting in San Francisco to attempt a compromise by which electors would cast ballots for the Democratic candidate who carried the most votes in the state and thereby not split California's electors and give victory to the Republicans. The Breckinridge forces refused. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Hubert H. Bancroft, The History of California, Vol. VII (San Francisco, CA: The History Company, 1890), 268.
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