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Events

Date	Event
03/27/1852	Coles Bashford sworn in as Republican governor of Wisconsin
12/03/1855	The 34th Congress opens in Washington, DC
02/22/1856	The Republican Party holds its first national meeting
06/17/1856	The Republican Party convention opens in Philadelphia
01/12/1857	First Republican Governor of Illinois inaugurated
04/07/1857	Lincoln holds meeting regarding 1860 election
10/25/1858	Senator Seward gives his famous "irrepressible conflict" speech in Rochester, New York
01/04/1859	New Hampshire Republicans hold their state nominating convention
01/13/1859	The Connecticut Republican Party Convention meets in New Haven
05/07/1859	Senator Seward sails for Europe on a mission to "recruit his health" and study "Old World" institutions
05/18/1859	The Republican Party is organized in Kansas at a Convention in Osawatomie
11/08/1859	Republican Governor Alexander Randall re-elected in Wisconsin
01/03/1860	Republicans sweep Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's municipal elections
01/10/1860	Cassius Clay speaks for more than three hours from the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Kentucky
01/27/1860	Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time
02/03/1860	John W. Forney returns as Clerk of the House, this time as a Republican
02/22/1860 - 02/23/1860	Pennsylvania Opposition Party Convention nominates Cameron for President and Curtin for Governor
02/29/1860	Wisconsin Republicans support William Seward for President
03/01/1860	Ohio Republicans meet in Columbus and select Senator Chase as their choice for President
03/06/1860	John Wentworth once again becomes mayor of Chicago
03/07/1860	Massachusetts Republicans make William H. Seward their first choice for President
03/09/1860	Abraham Lincoln rallies Connecticut Republicans in a strong evening speech at Norwich
03/12/1860	House of Representatives passes the Homestead Bill
03/14/1860	Nebraska Republicans dominate election for delegates to the territorial constitutional convention
03/18/1860	William H. Bissell becomes the first Illinois governor to die in office
04/02/1860	Republicans sweep state elections in Connecticut
04/13/1860	In Virginia, Prince William County Republicans meet to choose delegates for the state convention in Wheeling
04/18/1860	New York State Republican Convention selects William H. Seward as its choice for President
04/26/1860	Maryland Republicans hold their state convention in Baltimore amidst hostile crowds
05/02/1860	The Virginia Republican State Convention meets in Wheeling, Virginia
05/09/1860 - 05/10/1860	Illinois Republicans hold their state convention in Decatur and nominate Richard Yates for governor
05/10/1860	The U.S. Senate passes its version of the Homestead Bill
05/12/1860	Female correspondent covers the Chicago Convention of the Republican Party
05/16/1860 - 05/18/1860	Republican National Convention meets in Chicago, Illinois
05/19/1860	In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is formally offered the Republican Party nomination for President
05/23/1860	In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln formally accepts the Republican nomination for President
05/26/1860	Pennsylvania Republicans meet in Harrisburg and Philadelphia to ratify the recent nominations in Chicago
06/05/1860	Virginia Republican arrested for circulating anti-southern literature
06/07/1860	In Detroit, Michigan Republicans endorse the Chicago nominations and choose Austin Blair for governor
06/22/1860	President Buchanan vetoes the Homestead Bill of 1860
06/27/1860	Vermont Republican Convention meets in Rutland and nominates Erastus Fairbanks for governor
07/10/1860	Ohio Republican congressional candidate leaves party over platform plank on immigrant voting
07/13/1860	Prominent New York American Party politician James O. Putnam endorses Abraham Lincoln
07/16/1860	At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters
07/29/1860	From Missouri, Carl Schurz writes to his wife of his success in winning German-born voters to the Republican side
08/01/1860	Nebraska Republicans hold their territorial convention at Plattsmouth
08/08/1860	Giant Republican rally in Springfield, Illinois
08/24/1860	Governor Banks of Massachusetts declines re-nomination for a second term
09/04/1860	In Vermont, Republicans win state-wide elections
09/04/1860	Senator W.H. Seward speaks in Detroit on a campaign swing for Republicans in Michigan
09/05/1860	Another huge Republican rally, this time in Jersey City, New Jersey
09/10/1860	Republicans sweep the Maine state-wide elections
09/11/1860	Four thousand "Wide Awake" club members march in a torch-lit parade through Albany, New York
09/20/1860	Rhode Island Republican Convention held in Providence
09/23/1860	Senator Seward campaigns for the Republican Party in St. Joseph, Missouri
09/25/1860	In New York City, Republican "Wide Awakes" brawl with Bell supporters on Broadway
10/03/1860	In New York City, 12,000 Republican "Wide-Awakes" march in a huge torch-lit night parade
10/04/1860	William H. Seward continues his stumping tour for Republicans in Cleveland, Ohio
10/09/1860	Republicans sweep to victory in state-wide elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota
11/01/1860	New York City's veterans of the War of 1812 meet and declare for Lincoln and the Republicans
11/06/1860	Abraham Lincoln votes in Springfield, Illinois at 3:30PM and waits for election news at a local telegraph office
04/01/1861	Governor Buckingham re-elected as Republicans once again sweep state elections in Connecticut
04/09/1861	In New Jersey, the state capital Trenton elects its first Republican mayor
11/05/1861	Republican governors Andrew of Massachusetts and Ramsey of Minnesota easily re-elected
01/10/1862	In Sacramento, Republican railway builder Leland Stanford becomes the eighth governor of California
12/18/1862	Senatorial caucus meets to discuss Cabinet crisis
06/04/1863	In Concord, Republican railway executive Joseph Gilmore is sworn in as governor of New Hampshire

People

Adams, John Quincy

Addams, John Huy

Albright, Charles

Andrew, John Albion

Anthony, Henry Bowen

Banks, Nathaniel Prentice

Bashford, Coles

Beaman, Fernando Cortez

Bigelow, John

Bingham, Kinsley Scott

Bissell, William Henry

Blaine, James Gillespie

Blair, Austin

Blair, Francis Preston, Sr.

Bovay, Alvan Earl

Brooks, Noah

Bryant, William Cullen

Butler, Roderick Random

Cameron, Simon

Campbell, John Allen

Chase, Salmon Portland

Clay, Cassius Marcellus

Colfax, Schuyler

Corwin, Thomas

Cullom, Shelby Moore

Documents

Date	Title
	Springfield Illinois Journal, "Fusion," August 31, 1854
03/04/1855	David Davis to Julius Rockwell, March 4, 1855
06/10/1856	Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 10, 1856
10/13/1856	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “N. C. University,” October 13, 1856
01/01/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “The Republican Platform,” January 1, 1857
01/01/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Future Judged by the Past," January 1, 1857
01/01/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "Black Republicanism in Missouri," January 1, 1857
01/09/1857	New York Times, “Message of Gov. Hamlin, of Maine,” January 9, 1857
02/28/1857	Lincoln's Notes for Speech at Chicago, February 28, 1857
03/18/1857	New York Times, “How a Gentleman is Appreciated by Proslavery Fanatics,” March 18, 1857
04/20/1857	Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, April 20, 1857
04/23/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “A Fire-Eater’s Meditation on the St. Louis Emancipation Victory,” April 23, 1857
04/30/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Southern Press," April 30, 1857
05/02/1857	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “The New Nullification,” May 2, 1857
05/09/1857	Abraham Lincoln to Charles D. Gilfillan, May 9, 1857
06/10/1857	New York Times, “Republican Planks,” June 10, 1857
08/13/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “A Mistake,” August 13, 1857
10/15/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Union," October 15, 1857
10/22/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
12/28/1857	Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857
01/03/1858	Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, January 3, 1858
03/16/1858	Israel Washburn to James Shepard Pike, March 16, 1858
04/07/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Result in the House," April 7, 1858
06/08/1858	New York Times, “Senator Douglas and the Republicans of Illinois,” June 8, 1858
06/23/1858	Raleigh (NC) Register, “The Northern Democracy Split to Pieces,” June 23, 1858
07/04/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "An Affair of Colored Moonshine," July 4, 1858
07/08/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Senator Crittenden,” July 8, 1858
07/20/1858	Milwaukie (WI) Sentinel, "Douglas in the South," July 20, 1858
08/11/1858	Thomas C. Sharp to Ozias Mather Hatch, August 11, 1858
08/22/1858	Abraham Lincoln to Joseph O. Cunningham, August 22, 1858
08/27/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Faithful Witness,” August 27, 1858
09/08/1858	New York Times, “The Union Meeting at the Cooper Institute,” September 8, 1858
10/04/1858	New York Times, “Fusion in the City,” October 4, 1858
10/19/1858	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “A Great Ado about Nothing,” October 19, 1858
10/25/1858	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, "Divided We Fall," October 25, 1858
10/30/1858	Chester P. Dewey to Abraham Lincoln, October 30, 1858
11/04/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “The Antagonism Between Slave and Free States,” November 4, 1858
11/09/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “General Blair,” November 9, 1858
12/10/1858	New York Herald, “The Union of the Opposition Factions,” December 10, 1858
01/02/1859	Recollection of Jesse W. Fell, Conversation with Abraham Lincoln in early 1859
01/09/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “The Plans of the Opposition for 1860,” January 9, 1859
01/24/1859	New York Herald, “The Presidential Question,” January 24, 1859
01/31/1859	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “A Candid Southern Opinion,” January 31, 1859
02/06/1859	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Letter from Washington,” February 6, 1859
02/26/1859	New York Times, “The Political Future,” February 26, 1859
03/07/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Br. [Mr.] Buchanan and the Democratic Party,” March 7, 1859
03/09/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Union of the South,” March 9, 1859
03/17/1859	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Slavery in New Mexico,” March 17, 1859
03/18/1859	William A. Ross to Abraham Lincoln, March 18, 1859
03/26/1859	Abraham Lincoln to William A. Ross, March 26, 1859
03/29/1859	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Republicans,” March 29, 1859
04/02/1859	(Omaha) Nebraskian, “Ossowatamie [Osawatomie] Brown,” April 2, 1859
04/06/1859	New York Herald, “The Late Scattering Elections,” April 6, 1859
04/07/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Beginning of the Presidential Campaign,” April 7, 1859
04/10/1859	New York Herald, “The Next Presidential Election,” April 10, 1859
04/13/1859	Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, April 13, 1859
04/13/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “The Democracy and Non-Intervention,” April 13, 1859
04/15/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Correspondence of the Mercury," April 15, 1859
04/20/1859	New York Times, “The Massachusetts Two Years’ Amendment,” April 20, 1859
04/21/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln in New York,” April 21, 1859
04/30/1859	Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, April 30, 1859
05/01/1859	New York Herald, “A Foreigner View of Black Republicanism,” May 1, 1859
05/10/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Cavil,” May 10, 1859
05/11/1859	New York Times, “Amendment to the Massachusetts State Constitution,” May 11, 1859
05/13/1859	New York Times, “A Slave State on the Pacific,” May 13, 1859
05/17/1859	Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859
05/24/1859	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel,“The Massachusetts Two Years’ Amendment,” May 24, 1859
05/25/1859	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “You Don’t Know the People of Ohio,” May 25, 1859
06/07/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Republicanism in Virginia,” June 7, 1859
06/18/1859	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “William H. Seward,” June 18, 1859
07/25/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Folly,” July 25, 1859
08/15/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is thought at the North of the New Ultimatum,” August 15, 1859
08/31/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Open Declaration of Hostilities,” August 31, 1859
09/01/1859	William T. Bascom to Abraham Lincoln, September 1, 1859
09/02/1859	Peter Zinn to Abraham Lincoln, September 2, 1859
09/06/1859	Abraham Lincoln to Peter Zinn, September 6, 1859
09/13/1859	Russell Errett to Abraham Lincoln, September 13, 1859
09/14/1859	M. A. Northrop to Abraham Lincoln, September 14, 1859
09/14/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Abr. Lincoln,” September 14, 1859
09/16/1859	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859
09/19/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Mr. Lincoln in Ohio,” September 19, 1859
09/21/1859	Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, September 21, 1859
10/01/1859	Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Beloit, Wisconsin, October 1, 1859
10/02/1859	New York Herald, “The Chevalier Forney Slackening Fire,” October 2, 1859
10/09/1859	Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Corwin, October 9, 1859
10/17/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Where will they Go?,” October 17, 1859
10/20/1859	Charles H. Ray to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1859
10/27/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Good Out of Evil," October 27, 1859
10/30/1859	New York Herald, “Political Excitement on the Rise,” October 30, 1859
10/31/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "A Game that Will Not Win," October 31, 1859
10/31/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Political Effect," October 31, 1859
11/01/1859	Abraham Lincoln to William E. Frazer, November 1, 1859
11/03/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Tenderly Sensitive," November 3, 1859
11/04/1859	Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Mechanicsburg, Illinois, November 4, 1859
11/07/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer,“Another Ray of Light,” November 7, 1859
11/08/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Democratic Party and Old Brown,” November 8, 1859
11/10/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Untitled," November 10, 1859
11/12/1859	William E. Frazer to Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1859
11/14/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer,"Old Brown," November 14, 1859
11/17/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "The Plea Will Not Avail Them," November 17, 1859
12/07/1859	San Francisco (CA) Bulletin, “Organization of the United States House of Representatives,” December 7, 1859
12/12/1859	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, December 12, 1859
12/14/1859	Hartford (CT) Courant, "Untitled,” December 14, 1859
12/19/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Northern Sentiment,” December 19, 1859
12/25/1859	New York Herald, “Seward Nominated for the Presidency by the Abolitionists,” December 25, 1859
01/09/1860	Alonzo J. Grover to Abraham Lincoln, January 9, 1860
01/19/1860	Washington (DC) National Era, "Prohibition of Slavery in Nebraska," January 19, 1860
01/24/1860	Boston (MA) Herald, “Telegraph to the Herald,” January 24, 1860
01/31/1860	Chicago (IL) Press & Tribune, “Who are the Disorganizers?,” January 31, 1860
02/01/1860	Boston (MA) Herald, "Where Shall They Go?," February 1, 1860
02/10/1860	Horace White to Abraham Lincoln, February 10, 1860
02/14/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Sedition Laws,” February 14, 1860
02/15/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Harper’s Ferry Inquisition,” February 15, 1860
02/16/1860	New York Times, “Manufacturing Martyrs,” February 16, 1860
02/28/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Fraudulent Voting,” February 28, 1860
02/28/1860	New York Herald, “Trouble among the Republican President Makers,” February 28, 1860
03/02/1860	New York Times, “Helper’s Book and the Republicans,” March 2, 1860
03/02/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “The Chicago Convention,” March 2, 1860
03/02/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Abraham Lincoln’s Speech,” March 2, 1860
03/05/1860	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Mr. Douglas’s Bid,” March 5, 1860
03/06/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Republicanism Defined,” March 6, 1860
03/09/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Lesson for the South,” March 9, 1860
03/14/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Pair of Smart Politicians,” March 14, 1860
03/15/1860	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Untitled,” March 15, 1860
03/22/1860	New York Times, “Newspapers without Labels,” March 22, 1860
03/26/1860	William Wilkins to James Watson Webb, March 26, 1860
04/02/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Specimen Preacher,” April 2, 1860
04/04/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Wide-Awakes,” April 4, 1860
04/20/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Waking Up to Their Danger,” April 20, 1860
04/25/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Wigwam,” April 25, 1860
04/25/1860	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Seward the Republican Nominee,” April 25, 1860
04/27/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “‘Old Judge McLean’,” April 27, 1860
05/04/1860	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The Wide Awakes,” May 4, 1860
05/12/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Charleston Convention,” May 12, 1860
05/16/1860 - 05/18/1860	Recollection by Henry C. Whitney, Republican National Convention, May 16-18, 1860
05/16/1860 - 05/18/1860	Recollection by Murat Halstead, Republican National Convention, May 16-18, 1860
05/17/1860	Abraham Lincoln's Endorsement on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat, May 17, 1860
05/17/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Convention Week in Chicago," May 17, 1860
05/19/1860	Joshua Reed Giddings to Abraham Lincoln, May 19, 1860
05/21/1860	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “The Chicago Convention,” May 21, 1860
05/23/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Kansas in the Senate,” May 23, 1860
05/23/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln as He Is,” May 23, 1860
05/23/1860	Abraham Lincoln to George Ashmun, May 23, 1860
05/24/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Going – Going – Gone!,” May 24, 1860
05/25/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Lincoln and Hamlin,” May 25, 1860
05/28/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The New York Sun on Lincoln,” May 28, 1860
05/28/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Mr. Lincoln's Committals,” May 28, 1860
05/30/1860	Schuyler Colfax to Abraham Lincoln, May 30, 1860
05/30/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln’s Hold on the Working-Men,” May 30, 1860
06/05/1860	Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “Can Locofocos Explain It?,” June 5, 1860
06/07/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Lincoln at the South,” June 7, 1860
06/12/1860	Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1860
06/12/1860	New York Herald, “Commencement of Republican Cabinet Making,” June 12, 1860
06/15/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Violations of the Constitution,” June 15, 1860
06/18/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, June 18, 1860
06/18/1860	George Ashmun to Abraham Lincoln, June 18, 1860
06/19/1860	Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, June 19, 1860
07/01/1860	James O. Putnam to Leonard Swett, copied in Swett to Abraham Lincoln, July 1860
07/02/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “A Quiet Campaign,” July 2, 1860
07/05/1860	Ripley (OH) Bee, “The John Brown Investigation,” July 5, 1860
07/06/1860	Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1860
07/10/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “A Political Dodge,” July 10, 1860
07/11/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, July 11, 1860
07/13/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “A Republican Paper Destroyed and Its Editor Driven from Town,” July 13, 1860
07/17/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, July 17, 1860
07/19/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “An Important Change,” July 19, 1860
07/25/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “What the South Really Fears,” July 25, 1860
07/25/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Black Republicanism Defined,” July 25, 1860
07/27/1860	Jole Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 27, 1860
07/28/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Mobbing Business,” July 28, 1860
08/01/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Wide Awakes,” August 1, 1860
08/05/1860	New York Herald, “Trouble Among the Republicans,” August 5, 1860
08/08/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “McKinney and Blunt,” August 8, 1860
08/13/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Three Southern Frights,” August 13, 1860
08/14/1860	New York Herald, “'Honest Old Abe' and His Cabinet,” August 14, 1860
08/16/1860	Ripley (OH) Bee, "Let Us Frighten Them," August 16, 1860
08/26/1860	New York Herald, “Interruption of a Political Meeting,” August 26, 1860
08/31/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Is Lincoln an Abolitionist?,” August 31, 1860
09/03/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “A Two-Edged Sword,” September 3, 1860
09/18/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “As Was Expected,” September 18, 1860
09/25/1860	Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “The Difference,” September 25, 1860
09/26/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, "Black Republican Bible," September 26, 1860
09/29/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing,” September 29, 1860
10/03/1860	New York Times, “The Wide-Awake Parade,” October 3, 1860
10/08/1860	New York Herald, “Won't Submit to Lincoln,” October 8, 1860
10/11/1860	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Terrors of Submission," October 11, 1860
10/17/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Attack on the Wide Awakes of Wheeling, Va.,” October 17, 1860
10/19/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Wide Awakes at Washington,” October 19, 1860
10/20/1860	David Hunter to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1860
10/22/1860	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Harper's Ferry Anniversary Celebration," October 22, 1860
10/25/1860	New York Herald, “The Demonstration on Tuesday Night,” October 25, 1860
10/29/1860	Edward Mattson to Abraham Lincoln, October 29, 1860
10/31/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "Wide Awakes a Minute Men!," October 31, 1860
11/05/1860	New York Times, "The Republicans and Slavery," November 5, 1860
11/06/1860	Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Pro-Slavery Tricks," November 6, 1860
11/07/1860	New York Times, "The Administration and Disunion," November 7, 1860
11/08/1860	New York Herald, “Who are the Cooks in Pennsylvania?,” November 8, 1860
11/09/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, "Lincoln's Administration," November 9, 1860
11/12/1860	John P. Sanderson to David Davis, November 12, 1860
11/13/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “A Bugle Blast from Washington,” November 13, 1860
11/14/1860	Charles Billinghurst to Abraham Lincoln, November 14, 1860
11/22/1860	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Will They Do It?,” November 22, 1860
11/23/1860	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 23, 1860
12/08/1860	Chicago (IL) Tribune, "The Prime Cause," December 8, 1860
12/10/1860	New York Herald, “The Crisis and Its Solution,” December 10, 1860
12/11/1860	New York Times, “The President’s Organ on the Crisis,” December 11, 1860
12/21/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, "Suffering in New York," December 21, 1860
12/24/1860	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Mr. Lincoln's Position,” December 24, 1860
12/27/1860	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Republican Opposition to a Compromise," December 27, 1860
12/29/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “No Backing Down!,” December 29, 1860
01/01/1861	Anonymous to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1861
01/18/1861	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Obtaining Votes Under False Pretences,” January 18, 1861
01/21/1861	Israel Washburn Jr. to Abraham Lincoln, January 21, 1861
02/03/1861	New York Herald, “Greeley for Senator, Why Not?,” February 3, 1861
02/04/1861	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “How are the Mighty Fallen!,” February 4, 1861
02/14/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Thurlow Weed,” February 14, 1861
02/15/1861	Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1861
02/24/1861	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Enforcement of the Laws,” February 24, 1861
02/27/1861	New York Herald, “Should Mr. Chase Go Into the Cabinet?,” February 27, 1861
03/04/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "4th of March," March 4, 1861
03/06/1861	New York Times, “A Bloody Programme,” March 6, 1861
03/14/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Abolitionists and Secessionists,” March 14, 1861
03/24/1861	New York Herald, “Honor to Abolitionism Pure and Simple,” March 24, 1861
03/31/1861	New York Herald, “The Republican Party and their Professions for the Poor,” March 31, 1861
04/06/1861	Savannah (GA) News, “The Tribune on Virginia,” April 6, 1861
04/12/1861	New York Times, “Slave Insurrections,” April 12, 1861
04/16/1861	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “Another John Brown Raid,” April 16, 1861
04/20/1861	Savannah (GA) News, “Mails to the South to be Cut Off,” April 20, 1861
05/06/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "What We Have To Expect," May 6, 1861
05/22/1861	Savannah (GA) News, “Disinterested Black Republican Patriots,” May 22, 1861
05/27/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Abusing England,” May 27, 1861
11/10/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz, November 10, 1862
06/13/1863	New York Times, “The Military and the Civil Power,” June 13, 1863
07/01/1865	Johnson to William H. Herndon, 1865-66
03/07/1866	Selected Resolutions, Pennsylvania Republican Party Convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1866
08/08/1866	Resolutions, Republican Party of Illinois in Convention, August 8, 1866, Springfield, Illinois

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