Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Breckinridge” in chapter 30 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.:
...ough the authentic action of her people, to unite her fortunes with those of the Rebellion.
Though she had, for some years, been a Democratic State--casting her Presidential vote for Buchanan and Breckinridge , in 1856, by some seven thousand majority --the cloven foot of treason had no sooner been exhibited, by the disruption of the Democratic party at Charleston, than her people gave unmistakable notice ...
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