New Jersey Republicans held a massive evening meeting in Jersey City.  After a torch-lit parade, New Jersey Senator John Ten Eyck spoke, warning all party members to be watchful of Democratic electoral fraud. Governor William Pennington urged everyone there to work to their utmost to make sure of a Republican victory in November.  Newspaper reports put the crowd at more than 6,000 people, the biggest gathering ever in the town.  (By John Osborne)

Senator William H. Seward was the featured speaker at a large Republican campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan.  Speaking in the afternoon at the freight yards of the Milwaukee and Detroit Railroad, Seward gave an energetic speech supporting the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and other Republicans.  On a tour of the state, Seward's next stop was Lansing and then Kalamazoo.  In April 1861 he became Lincoln's Secretary of State.  (By John Osborne)

At 11 a.m., the New York City Police Department launched an all-out effort to clear the city of beggars and street hustlers.  By the evening, every precinct was reporting multiple arrests and the city courts were filled.  The Third Ward led the arrest numbers with eighty three, followed by the Seventeenth Ward with sixty-one.  All precincts reported a total of 486 arrests for the day.  (By John Osborne) 

Elections for state-wide offices were held in Vermont with the Republican Party emerging as victors.  Prosperous businessman Erastus Fairbanks, who had served earlier in the decade as a two-term Whig governor, was elected again, this time as a Republican easily defeating the Democrat, poet John Godfrey Saxe.  Fairbanks was Vermont's largest employer and he went on to serve two terms and lead his state's support for Lincoln's efforts to restore the Union.  (By John Osborne)

In Washington DC, all the Catholic Churches dedicated their day of worship "to the spiritual and temporal aid" of Pope Pius IX.  The Papal States were at the time under heavy pressure from Italian nationalism and the Church was seen as being in crisis.  Both attendance and collections were reported as significant.  (By John Osborne)

Former congressman Alexander H. Stephens spoke at a large rally for Stephen Douglas at the City Hall Park in Augusta, Georgia in support for Stephen Douglas.  A former Whig now a Democrat, Stephens was then one of the most vocal supporters of moderation in the South.  In Augusta, he strongly supported the Union as the best government in human history and that "if it fails we shall never see its like again."  The following year, Stephens became vice-president of the Confederacy.  (By John Osborne)