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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
eckinridge, of Kentucky, was nominated. Mr. Lincoln having been the choice of the Republican convention at Chicago in May, the campaign opened with four presidential candidates in the field. The vote for President of the United States on November 6, 1860, was: Abraham Lincoln1,866,352 Stephen A. Douglas1,375,157 John C. Breckinridge845,581 John Bell589,581 The vote in the Southern slave States: Abraham Lincoln26,430 Stephen A. Douglas163,525 John C. Breckinridge543,781 John Be Gulf States: Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas24,926 John C. Breckinridge168,400 John Bell94,444 The vote in Alabama: Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas13,651 John C. Breckinridge48,831 John Bell27,825 When on that fateful 6th of November, 1860, it was decided by the election of Mr. Lincoln that Black Republican rule was to dominate the Union and crush the South under with its compromising cruelty. The North and the South both knew that the election of Lincoln meant the destruct