As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I am going to place before you the election of 1860 AD in the year of our Lord, to show that in most instances a divided election in American Presidential elections becomes disaster. The only case for good was that of President Ronald Reagan over then Jimmy Carter and independent John Anderson.
George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot ended in disaster. Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson ended in disaster, as did the election of 1860 AD in the year of our Lord in Abraham Lincoln.
This period had the Democrats meeting in Baltimore Maryland in the April Convention, produced two candidates, Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckenridge to split the party.
This was met with the ascension of the GOP or Grand Old Party of the Republic or the second election for the Republican party which began with first candidate, American Hero, John Charles Fremont, liberator of California.
The leading contender was William H. Seward of New York. Seward was the favorite of the party leaders, but the East was being supplanted by the West, and a Westerner was chosen who could unite the North and West, even if party leaders considered Abraham Lincoln a disappointment.
General Nelson Appleton Miles wrote that nothing in Lincoln's election promoted anything unConstitutional, but the reality is Lincoln was the first shot of the war instigated in Europe by the war between the states.
It was known that Abraham Lincoln being inaugurated would bring dissolution and war.
If the Democrats has simply looked to Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, a leading Democrat, and the policy of George Washington, and united, they could have taken the the South and the West, and thereby dictated the terms to the liberal Northeast who was forcing all of this war to break the control of the political South.
It would not be a matter of promoting slavery, but ending it on Washington and Benton's political judgment to maintain Southern control of the US Congress.
It is not a debate that Abraham Lincoln was a good man, for he was. He was though the wrong choice made for America by European and Northeast interests. Seward would have been defeated in being from New York for the GOP. Abraham Lincoln brought on a disaster for America, even if the war industrialized America and made her arise faster than she normally would have. Without Lincoln, the domino affect of war would have never engulfed America into the German Genocide in World War I and II, as America without the Civil War, would have been in process in 1900 just entering into the Aboriginal terror wars of the Great Plains completed a generation previous.
It is spilled milk, but the point is, is that the Democrats split their ticket in 1860 AD in the year of our Lord and that this is what placed Abraham Lincoln into the White House. It was not because Lincoln had national appeal. He only appealed to those States who elected him.
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