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—— ON THIS DAY ——
NOVEMBER 6, 1860
United States
166 years ago
The United States presidential election of November 6, 1860, won by Abraham Lincoln, whose victory triggered the secession of Southern states and the Civil War.
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States. He took about thirty-nine percent of the popular vote in a four-way race and a clear majority of the electoral college, carrying every free state but one. In ten Southern states his name did not appear on the ballot at all. He had never held national executive office, had served a single term in the House of Representatives more than a decade earlier, and had lost his most recent Senate race.
The Democratic Party had destroyed itself over slavery earlier that year, splitting at its convention in Charleston and then nominating two separate candidates: Stephen Douglas for the Northern wing and John Breckinridge for the Southern. A fourth candidate, John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, ran on the position of avoiding the question entirely. The Republican platform did not propose abolishing slavery where it existed. It proposed stopping its extension into the western territories, which Southern leaders understood as a long-term death sentence for the institution.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
The secession crisis of 1860 and 1861, in which eleven Southern states withdrew from the Union following Lincoln's election and formed the Confederate States of America.
South Carolina acted first. A convention met in Charleston and voted unanimously on December 20, 1860, to dissolve the state's union with the others. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed in January and February. Delegates met in Montgomery, Alabama, and formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, choosing Jefferson Davis as president, all before Lincoln had taken the oath of office. The outgoing president, James Buchanan, held the position that secession was unconstitutional and that the federal government had no power to prevent it.
Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. His inaugural address told the South that he had no purpose to interfere with slavery in the states where it existed, that he intended to hold federal property, and that the government would not be the aggressor. Six weeks later Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour. Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina then joined the Confederacy, and four slaveholding border states stayed in the Union.
The war lasted four years and killed somewhere between six hundred thousand and seven hundred fifty thousand people, more American deaths than every other war the country has fought combined. It ended slavery, which the election had not been fought to do, and settled by force the question of whether a state could leave. Lincoln was reelected in 1864, delivered a second inaugural address that is among the shortest and most quoted in American history, and was assassinated on April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender at Appomattox.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
It triggered the secession crisis directly. South Carolina left the Union six weeks after the result and six more states followed before Lincoln was even inaugurated, making this one of the few elections whose outcome by itself precipitated a war.
It showed a political system that had stopped working. A major party split in two over a single issue, candidates were kept off ballots in entire regions, and a president was elected with under forty percent of the vote, all signs that the ordinary machinery of compromise had failed.
It put in office the man who would redefine the Union. Lincoln's conduct of the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment reshaped what the United States was, and almost none of it was on offer in the platform he was elected on.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On November 6, 1860, a one-term former congressman who had lost his last race was elected president without appearing on the ballot in ten states. South Carolina left the Union before Christmas. Six more states were gone before he was sworn in, and six hundred thousand people died over the next four years.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.”
— Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 1861
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about the election of 1860, the four-way split that produced it, the secession crisis that followed, and the war it led to?
