Place Created: Richmond, VA
Year Created: 1860
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Description: This leaflet, created by the campaign to elect John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane on the Democratic presidential ticket in the 1860 election, outlines their policy platform and positions on different issues. They state that they believe in the Constitution and that they would allow the people living in territories of the United States to form their own state governments. They also express their support to repealing the Missouri Compromise, which divided the nation into half free states and half slave states. The 1860 Democratic National Convention failed to nominate a presidential ticket at first and eventually nominated Stephen Douglas at subsequent conventions. A separate group of mostly Southern Democratic party delegates endorsed Breckinridge and Lane.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
OUR PRINCIPLES
The Constitution
The Sovereignty & Equality of the States; The
Repeal of the Missouri Restriction; The People of the
Territories in forming State Governments to adopt
their own Institutions. Equal protection to Citizens
Native & Naturalized, & to every species of Property.
FOR PRESIDENT
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE
of Kentucky
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOSEPH LANE
of Oregon
ELECTORS
1st District....William Lamb, of Norfolk City
2d...... do.......Thomas F. Goode, of Mecklenburg
3d...... do....... John R. Edmunds, of Halifax
4th..... do.......Thomas T. Tredway, of Prince Edward
5th..... do....... James L. Kemper, of Madison
6th..... do....... .James Lyons, of Henrico
7th..... do....... Rich’d A Claybrook, of Northumberland
8th..... do....... Beverley B. Douglas, of King William
9th..... do....... Eppa Hunton, of Prince William
10th... do.......Thomas M. Isbell, of Jefferson
11th... do....... James W. Massie, of Rockbridge
12th... do....... Wm H Anthony, of Botetourt
13th... do....... Isaac B. Dunn, of Washington
14th... do....... John G. Newman, of Kanawha
15th... do....... Zedekiah Kidwell of Marion
Write your name on the back of this Ticket
Election on Tuesday November 6th 1860
Citation: Democratic Ticket. Democratic ticket. Our principals the constitution. For President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky For Vice President Joseph Lane of Oregon. Electors .... Election on Tuesday, November 6th, . Lith of Hoyer & Ludwig, Richmond, Va. Richmond, 1860. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.18700100/>.
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