Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Breckinridge” in chapter 21 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...vention now proceeded to vote for President; and, on the first ballot, Mr. Douglas had 173 1/2; Guthrie 10, Breckinridge 5, and there were 3 scattering.
On the next ballot, Mr. Douglas had 181 1/2, Breckinridge 7 1/2, Guthrie 5 1/2; whereupon, on motion of Mr. Sanford E. Church, of New York, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved unanimously, That Stephen A. Douglas, of the State of Illinois, h...
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