The American Presidential Election of 1860
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The 19th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. In 1860, it's arguably the most important presidential election in American history, with a four way race that literally tears the country apart.
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In 1860, tensions were obviously high, not only between Democrats and Republicans, but within the Democratic Party. At the Democratic National Conventions, extreme pro-slavery “Fire-eaters,” walked out in protest. They were nicknamed Fire-eaters because they refused to compromise on slavery to a point where they wanted to secede and start their own country. They ended up being known as the Southern Democratic Party, as most of them were Southerners, and nominated their own candidates. Those Democrats who remained nominated Stephen Douglas, who by this time was very well known across the country as a moderate on the slavery issue who favored "popular sovereignty.” Benjamin Fitzpatrick was nominated for Vice President, but he refused the nomination, so they nominated Herschel Johnson, the former governor of Georgia, instead. So they were the nominees for what became known as the Northern Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, the Southern Democratic Party got together again and nominated current Vice President John C. Breckinridge for President and Joseph Lane, a Senator from Oregon, as his running mate. Wait, Oregon? Oregon’s a state now? Heck yeah. Both Oregon and Minnesota were now states, and got to participate in this election for the first time.
Oh yeah, James Buchanan, the current President, remember he was a Democrat, wasn’t even brought up as a nominee for re-election. That shows you just how unpopular he was.
The Republican Party, now stronger than they were in 1856, had four top contenders for their nomination. William Seward, a Senator from New York, Salmon P. Chase, a former governor and Senator of Ohio, Edward Bates, a former Representative from Missouri, and rising star Abraham Lincoln, a former Representative from Illinois. Lincoln had become famous after a series of highly publicized debates with Stephen Douglas when the two both ran for Senator in Illinois in 1858. Lincoln had lost that election, but now had a chance to face his old rival again for this time a much higher office.
You might already know this, but Lincoln won the nomination, mostly because he was the most moderate of the four I mentioned. The Republicans chose Hannibal Hamlin, a Senator from Maine, as his running mate.
To further complicate this election, there were other nominees. Former Whigs who wanted to avoid the country splitting up over the slavery issue created a new political party called the Constitutional Union Party. Their slogan was, "The Union as it is, and the Constitution as it is."So yeah, I guess the name fit. They nominated John Bell, a former Senator from Tennessee, with Edward Everett, a really good speaker and former Governor and Senator of Massachusetts, as his running mate.
There were other candidates, but in a crowded field already, the other candidates barely had any support so I will not mention them here. It seemed to be another classic four-way race.
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For your 2020 election video, you should include that it's the first election since 1976 without a member of the Bush, Clinton, or Paul family on the ballot
Are you gonna do a vid of election of 2020 in December?
What date and where you was born?
1856 and 1860 was a 2 election streak where the loser was named John, This won't happen again until 2004 and 2008
Cool.
Didn't notice that lol.
Nice
Also in 1972 was a 2 election streak where the loser was also named george
Good point
I had someone in my American History class who’s ancestor was John C Breckinridge. Pretty cool, he looked just like him.
I wanna go to school with you now.
alex krakowski I’m also a Breckinridge relative through Robert e lee
@@codymiller5468 Yeah theres a video that keeps popping up in my recommended about them
So when’s he gonna be on the news?
Wow I had actually had a descendant of John Bell in my history class
Lincoln was a pretty cool dude. He nominated every single rival from his political party that wanted the Presidency into his cabinet. That's quite an accomplishment.
He is the smartest president.
he was a racist tho
@Странно Хрипы Say that in public. I dare you. Coward.
The Stuttering Gamer you are calling somebody a coward in the UA-cam comment section. I bet you would not say that to his face.
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.”
- Robert E. Lee
Oh man, I wonder who’s gonna win
Edit: holy shit I did not see that coming
I AM Abraham Lincoln reincarnated. The Republican Party was started in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories which was a liberal stance. Lincoln was the first openly anti-slavery president which is why the evil conservative Southerners seceded; that and the plantation owners owed $1 billion to NYC banks and NYC markets took 40% of the profits from cotton, tobacco, rice, etc. In 1866, all the newly freed blacks were Republican. Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt but especially with John F. Kennedy in 1960 & LBJ in 1964, blacks switched in mass to Democrats. Today, 95% of blacks are liberal Democrats.
See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Einstein reincarnated could produce this. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.
@@BradWatsonMiami real Abraham Lincoln no way
@@BradWatsonMiami actually the Republican party was founded in 1854 get your facts straight kid
@@getass3290 Correct and 1856 was the 1st Presidential Election with a Republican candidate.
I AM the returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein reincarnated. see 7seals.blogspot.com , that has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 is part of Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.
@@BradWatsonMiami this is a lot of information
"South, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself."
*-Abraham Lincoln*
Lincoln did say that but with a more elegant chice of words
Oh yea…
This is the only election in which a third party won the most counties. Breckinridge won over 600 counties, almost 100 more than the next highest
That really shows how sparsely populated the South was compared to the increasingly urbanized North
and this was the first and last election in which kansas was an important election factor lol
Sela Hanany 1936 for the republicans
(Landon and Borah who went to the university of Kansas)
@@jonaboktr5269 Landon has no chance for defeating FDR.
And the last
I don’t even watch these videos because I need to study for school or something, I’m just interested in it. Great work mr. Beat
Same
It's interesting how people somehow blame Lincoln for the southern states' temper tantrum.
+Ares99999 The President is always an easy target
@@stresemanniteist
🤣😂😅😆
@@stresemanniteist clearly you're pro-slavery 😳
@@stresemanniteist No, it's not. The South couldn't bully the Northern people any more and they knew it. ( the Shrinking South ) There is no valid reason, for the Slave Power's Treason.
Ares99999 most definitely
What im learning from 1836, 1860, 1912 and 1968 is if you split a party's vote you can win big
It Almost happened again in 1992...
@@hussain6469 only difference is that Perot didn’t get an electoral vote
These students are getting an excellent lesson. Buchanan, you dropped the ball more often than a first-time quarterback.
The main reason Democrats did not re-nominate Buchanan in 1860 is that Buchanan was not running for re-election. He announced his intention of being a one-term President in his inaugural address, effectively making him a lame duck on day one.
Douglas did campaign, but towards the end of the election cycle, he did most of his campaigning in southern states where he was not on the ballot. He was not campaigning for votes, but to convince Southerners to stay in the Union regardless of the election outcome. It may have cost him the Presidency, not campaigning in the north.
Had Douglas been elected, he would have the second shortest Presidency in history. He died three months after Lincoln took office. Having a Southerner as VP, it would have really altered American history.
I never knew that about Buchanan.
In my opinion, I believe he suffers badly in retrospect as his tenure came at a rather difficult point in American history: he actually accomplished his goals, despite sucession taking place, and winning the 1856 Democratic nomination from Stephen Douglas proved his political genius.
That's right. He declined to run for reelection.
@@MRB16th no offense but he was incompetent, ineffective and arrogant of his goals.
True, Douglas would have lasted 3 months. That’s shorter than Fighting Bob would last had he been elected. Bob would last around nine fortnights. Also, had Douglas been elected, he would be tied with Madison in shortest president.
@@IsaaacWithThreeA I remember reading that shortly after taking office, Lincoln got a visit from Douglas. Douglas offered to travel the northern states speaking up in support of the upcoming war effort. Lincoln accepted the offer, even though he know just by looking at Douglas that he was not a well man, and would not be able to fulfill his promise.
WOOOO I WON
Yayyyy, go you!! Hehehe, 😭
hooray
I'm Southern & the actions of the Confederates make my stomach turn...
At least my home state of Kentucky remained in the union
@@Wompwomp184 there's no black and white. It's just that some grays are lighter than other grays.
You mean opposing a dictator that created income taxes, suspension of habeas corpus, and all other atrocities that guy committed under the guise of "Honest Abe". You have to be a complete moron.😊
“It’s our history! You won’t erase our flag!” 👴🏻
Tennesseeans take pride in being the last to leave and first to rejoin.
Douglas died less that 3 months after Lincoln was inaugurated
Theres a free to play online game called Campaign Trail where you pick a relevant candidate of a specific election and your running mate and answer a series of 25 questions which are based around issues of the time. All the while you look at the map of the country which shows which party its supporting based on your responses. The election of 1860 is credibly hard af because even with Lincoln you gotta say the right things as some crucial states like Stephen Douglas such as out west and New York, New Jersey, and Indiana and you can easily lose
School brought me here, not as boring as I thought
It's pretty funny how the Northern Democrats chose a Southern vice presidential candidate, and the Southern Democrats chose a non-Southern vice presidential candidate.
I knew a lot of the facts, but I still find this video interesting and entertaining. The background music and accompanying pictures were nice.
+James Melton Well thanks so much, James! I lean toward edutainment to make this stuff more accessible to the masses, but at the same time you may have noticed that nearly all of the photographs and even the background music are from around 1860 to help capture the time more accurately.
+Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel I see the accuracy in your lecture. I'm an aspiring teacher. I plan on getting my degree in History, hopefully working towards a doctorate. I try to keep my opinion out of the Civil War when teaching it, because of where in the US I'm from. It's one of my three favorite eras to study.
James Melton I definitely hear you on keeping opinions out of it. I should do that more! I actually am not teaching the Civil War this year and I miss it. Best of luck with the rest of your schooling.
Same and I've been out of school for a couple years now
John Breckinridge was the great-grandfather of "Bunny" Breckinridge, a gay drag queen who played the ruler of the aliens in Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
Bill Murray portrayed him in the 1994 film "Ed Wood".
Wow
George Washington hello Mr. President. 🇺🇸
Are you on Heaven or not Mr. Washington?
“Goodbye, penis!”
-Bunny Breckinridge.
George Washington thanks
Imagine if we had electricity in 1700
Technically we always had electricity, in 1700 we just didn't know how to use it.
Or cars ! Steam cars were being worked on, and one actually even went on sale in 1863 !
We technically could have had internet back in the 1700's.
@RYLE SALUNGA it seems everyone had a seizure
@RYLE SALUNGA
*jamesmadysun joined*
James: Yes I won the election.
*georgeclinton comes back*
George:I'm back
A few yrs later
*Clinton dies*
Time skip
*jamzmonrow joined le game*
James: Yey I won the election twice now in leaving
*johnadamsthesecond joined*
Quincy: I WON, DAD I WOOOOOOOON
*Johnadams58 joins*
John: WHAT THE 🤬
Quincy: I WON
John: WHAT
Quincy: THE ELECTION
*tomjeff joins*
John and Thomas: *WHAT THE HECK*
*John and Thomas dies*
Quincy: I'm sad now
*androojaksun joins*
Andrew: I won
Quincy: HOW THE 🤬 DID U WIN
Andrew: *I LEARNED TO PLAY POLITICS B🤬* *kills dickinson*
*vanmadeoutofurine joins*
Buren: I WON
Andrew: GOOD JOB MAN
*William joins and dies*
*Tyler joins*
Tyler: :/
*Poke joins*
Polk: yay, Ummm guys Mexico sus *puts troops at the border*
Mexico:is that a act of war? I think that's a act of war, were going to war.
Polk: Told you they were kinda sus
*Poke dies 3 months when he leaves office and ZakereeTaylr joins*
Taylor: yay I wo- *dies*
*FILLSOMEMORE joins*
Fillmore: :/
*PIERCEMYEARSMAN JOINS*
Pierce: IM HANDSOME B🤬
Everyone:👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
*jamesthebachelor joins*
James: I'm a bachelor
Everyone:👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
*abe joins*
Abe: NO MORE SLAVERY
everyone:👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Confederacy: Fak u
*booth kills abe*
Johnson joins: bye
*grantmeawish joins*
NO SLAVERY,FAIR FOR BLACKS
Everyone:👍👍👍👎👎👎👍👍👍👎👎👎
*mybeardismadeofhay joins*
Hayes: BEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
*garfieldthecatwithabeard joins*
Garfield: *assassinated*
Arthur: hi
Clevelandthehumancity joins*
Cleveland: hi
*harrison2 joins*
Harrison: im William's grandson
Cleveland: hi
*mckindly joins*
McKinley: DEFEAT SPAIN
*mckinley assassinated*
*Teddythehumanbear joins*
Teddy: I'm a good president
*Tafthefatty joins*
Taft: I'm fat
*woodrowwilson joins*
Wilson BEING IN WWI THO, I DONT THINK SO BITCH
1917: *joins*
*Gamalielhardenedpenis joins*
Harding hi, bye
*dies*
*StayCoolWithCoolidge joins*
Coolidge: hi *does a rlly great job*
*hooverboard joins*
Hoover: SH 🤬 THE GREAT DEPRESSION
*teddyscousinfrankin joins*
Franklin: WWII, I DONT THINK S- *BOMBED AND GOES IN WAR* *serves 4 terms*
*FDR dies*
*imatruman joins*
Truman: *does rlly good*
*generaleisenhower joins*
Eisenhower: I'm a ww2 General, *GENERAL OF THE ARMY*
*bigmacarthur joins*
MacArthur: gg man
*Fitzgeraldkennedy joins*
Kennedy: Hi
*assassination*
*tedandboobykennedy joins*
Ted and bobby: *i cri, sad baconhair noises*
*Bainzjonzun joins*
Baines: SAD BUT IM PRESIDENT
*imnotacrook joins*
Nixon:
*WATERGATE*
*resigns*
*fordthehumancar joins*
Ford: wait I wasnt elected, wow
*cartire joins*
Carter: GIVE ME A BREAK I SAW TOO MUCH
*Cartier leaves*
*Cartier Rejoins*
*Reaganomics joins*
Reagan: HOLLYWOOD NOTICE ME SENPAI *goes to HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN, hallelujah intensifies*
*hw joins*
H.W. Bush: I'm president yey
*Clinton joins*
Clinton: OH BOY IM PRESIDENT AND ITS SEX RELATIOOOOOOONS *Gets impeached* WHO F🤬 SUED ME
*W. Joins*
W. Bush: DAD BROTHER LOOK IM PRESIDENT
Jeb and H.W. Bush: gg
*obamathelama joins*
Obama: I'm the first black president
*donaldtrumpet joins*
trump: FUCK COVID
*Bidenthetrident joins*
Biden: OBAMA IM PRESIDENT
Obama:gg biden
Everyone:Bye
*everyone except W Bush,Trump,Biden,Obama,Clinton,and Carter dies and leaves*
W: I cri my dad di
How could such a high percentage of the population vote when women and blacks weren't allowed? Was is 82% of ELIGIBLE voters?
Yes
I think the author assumed as much of his viewers, as we so often do, not thinking in a historical perspective. Look at the Roman works we have, that bring with them as many new questions as those they answer...
Cross88 freed blacks and property owning women could vote too
Mr. Beat then I think you should have phrased it as such. Because saying that it was “82% of the population” that voted is extremely misleading. Again, one can know that you meant “82% of eligible voters” but still, the way you phrased it as “82% of the population” can be very misleading for those who don’t know what you actually mean by it and it’s just kinda... “annoying”, for lack of a better word, for the rest of us. I know that you cannot edit these videos cuz they’re already published, but when you make the video for the 2020 Presidential Election, please phrase it as “”x”% of eligible voters”. It’d make more sense phrases that way.
Mr. Beat I love your these videos, btw. 😃🙂
Is anyone else really diggin this music or is it just me?
1860 rock lol
The Union version of the song is better. In the same tune it goes like
"We'll all go down to Dixie away, away
Each Dixie boi must understand that he must mind his uncle".
happy birthday Mr. Beat
DNC: we can’t renominate Pierce he was the worst president, let’s try Buchanan
Buchanan: Good day gentlemen I am here to change the future.
And change the future he did! Sad sigh.
Justin Richards ahhaahahahhahaha
NGL of the older presidential election videos this one has the best song
Only election Lincoln defeated Stephen doughlas was presidential. He lost every other election to Douglas. Douglas was well liked and though of during that era.
John Breckenridge looks like Matthew Perry from F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Its crazy seeing California having only 4 votes
Why
@@ihatestarsbucks6680 because it’s known to have a lot of electrical votes now it has 55
Funny that South Carolina, the first state to secede, was the only state at that time to have electors chosen by the state legislature (instead of a popular vote like other states)
Also, Buchanan pledged to serve only one term in his inaugural address, so that's why he "wasn't brought up as a nominee" for this election
It's good to be in D.C. Hooray! Hooray!
Oh yeah Jib Jab
It feels awkward hearing Dixie while he´s talking about Lincoln
You know it was a favourite song of his
It's crazy to think about that if the other 3 republican candidates got nominated instead of Lincoln, or if the other 3 candidates got elected president, America could be 2 countries still today.
As long as a Republican won in 1860 Im sure the Union still would've won. Seward in particular was close to Lincoln and was his secretary of state and a good man
5:46 I thought my screen was cracked.
Lol same
I Was on my TV in front my TV screen with class cracked
5:52 my heart dropped, I thought there was a giant crack on my computer screen
Joseph Lane is one of my distant ancestors on my father’s side. Quite an interesting character. On his last day in the Senate, he had a nasty exchange with Andrew Johnson that gave him a notorious reputation after.
Lane accused Johnson of having "sold his birthright" as a Southerner. Johnson responded by suggesting that Lane was a hypocrite for so accusing Johnson when Lane so staunchly supported a movement of active treason against the United States.
Cap!
Happy birthday Mr. Beat
Thanks so much! :D
Honestly if southerners had anyone to blame it was James Buchanan being unpopular. That led to Douglas and Breckinridge splitting votes pretty evenly.
7:03 I wonder how Lincoln felt
Well I'm pretty sure he said " Oh wow thanks, as if you didn't help Mr.beat".
Lol lmao
Well I'm so happy that the Union won the civil war.
There ended up being three Democratic conventions that year: one adjourned, one without the South, and the Southern Democrats held their own.
In fact, the official Democrat convention had ended with no vice-presidential candidate being nominated - Stephen Douglas (who needed 59 ballots over two conventions!) offered the nomination to Herschel Johnson after the convention, and Johnson accepted.
Lincoln is by far one of the best presidents that ever walked on this earth.
Just found your channel! I'm a Nov. 6 birthday, too! And an avid social studies kind of guy. Glad I found your stuff, Mr. Beat!
Awesome! Glad you like it, and people who have birthdays on November 6 are pretty amazing.
Lincoln casually won even though he wasn’t on the ballot for 10 states.
I love it, when Abraham Lincoln did on Election in 1860.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
+Sheep pez :D Thank you!
Carlos Ghosn's brother hehehe
I’m glad that I won this election and became the greatest president in American history.
You Forgot,About The Part Where You Didn't Go To That Theater
Lincoln was the greatest president, I am glad he won also.
You are indeed. A huge improvement over the traitor James Buchanan
We have our first Republican president in the United States. With the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina drops out of the Union, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia.
Then during the Civil War Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, & Virginia were the last states to secede
1860, the only election that led to civil war
2020: hold my beer
Douglas was a good man
"Who knew that a presidential election could directly lead to war?"
Well, file that one under sentences that hit differently after the last election
This was a great video!
hi
@@stevet1634 hoi
@@cameronuggetmc7080 hi
Happy birthday Mr beat
Actually James Buchanan stated in his inaugural address he wouldn’t run for a second term.
I love your videos. I am a history buff, especially Presidential history. And the Election of 1860 is one of my favorite Presidential Elections.
the election of all time
Something important you could've emphasise more is that there were, for all intents and purposes, two elections in this election: the northern election (lincoln v. douglas) and the southern election (bell v. breckinridge). Northern candidates barely got any votes in the South and vice versa.
You sound exactly like Adam Scott/Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec.
Maybe I actually am Adam Scott.
I love how the rubric went against you gut feeling for the banking one. It happens to me a lot when grading
Music name: 1859 I Wish I Was in Dixie, Dixie's Land Anthem of the Confederate States of America Southern United States.
Although Douglas was a senator in Illinois, as someone who grew up in IL before moving to Kentucky, I can tell you the further south of IL you go, the more you see familiarities to the south. Even my brother-in-law who lived in Kentucky for a long time said after visiting my grandparents in southern IL that southern IL wasn't much different than the south.
The south/north divide of Illinois was a major factor during the Senate election between Douglas and Lincoln as well, Douglas received most of his support from the pro-slavery southern region, which they named Egypt after the town of Cairo, Illinois.
@@brianyu7333 I been to both Northern and Southern IL as I had family on my biological mom's side that lived in the Chicago area of Northern IL we use to visit.
Wow! What an eye opener! Maybe I was sleeping in U.S. History, but I don't think I EVER READ about this in either my U.S. HISTORY textbooks or did I EVER HEAR it being discussed. I don't think I slept through it all , however, because I was a B student.
Well joaquin phoenix can play Breckenridge in the movie.
Or Matthew Perry
The guy singing in the background is billy murray, the most influential singer of the first fifth of the 20th century
Good job Mr Beat, #16 was truly #1... 16 later #32 was truly #2!
U r insightful and pragmatic 👌
Thanks for the post !
Am I The Only One Who Heard The Confederate National Anthem In The Background???
Or more accurately “Dixie”.
That 81% turnout tho... holy fuck
Election Rundown: (whoo boi)
Took place on: Nov. 6 1860
Members of the collage: 303
Elec. votes needed to win: 152
Turnout: 81.2% (up 2.3% from 1856)
Candidates: Republican Party: Former Rep. for Illinois’s 7th Abraham Lincoln from Illinois (also my cousin). Running Mate: Incumbent Senator Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. Northern Dem. Party: Incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois. Running Mate: Former Governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson from *Georgia*
Southern Dem. Party: Incumbent VP John C. Breckinridge from Kentucky. Running Mate: Incumbent Senator Joseph Lane from Oregon.
Constitutional Union Party: Former Senator John Bell from Tennessee. Running Mate: Former Senator Edward Everett from Massachusetts.
Elec. Votes: Lincoln/Hamlin: 180. Breckinridge/Lane: 72. Bell/Everett: 39. Douglas/Johnson: 12.
Popular Vote: Lincoln/Hamlin: 1,865,908/39.82%. Douglas/Johnson: 1,380,202/29.46%. Breckinridge/Lane: 848,019/18.1%. Bell/Everett: 590,901/12.61%.
States Carried: Lincoln/Hamlin: 18. Breckinridge/Lane: 11. Bell/Everett: 3. Douglas/Johnson: 1.
Total Votes: 4,685,561.
Fact for the election: First time a Republican was elected
Wow 🤩…. Great work
Imagine if Ol' Abe had been shot in 1859....we would have avoided the worst disaster in history. Deo Vindice.
No, Seward would most likely have won and we'd still have the Civil War.
James Buchanan was not mentioned because he said he would only serve one term.
So basically using modern terminology:
Abraham Lincoln would be a Moderate Progressive like Obama and Warren, while his running mate Hannibal Hamlin would be an extreme leftist like Bernie Sanders.
Stephen Douglas would be a Conservative like Mitt Romney or George W. Bush, and his running mate would be a slightly more Right-Wing guy like Paul Ryan.
John C. Breckenridge and his running mate Joseph Lane would be the Tea Partiers or even the Alt-Right today of Ted Cruz and/or Richard Spencer, both of whom self identify today as Republicans.
John Bell and Edward Everett today would be filthy Neo-Liberal Centrists like Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg, thinking they can unite the country, but would backfire, because both the Leftist Buzzfeed and Right-Wing Breitbart would attack them from the left and the right respectively.
Don't believe me? Obama and Lincoln both said stuff about how those who attack us are tearing our country apart, both Douglas and Bush Jr. are seemingly nice men, but terribly misguided by leading in fear, Breckenridge's language of "Lincoln's gonna take our slaves!" matches with Cruz's argument of "They're taking our guns and jobs!" and Spencer's "They will not replace us!" argument. And John Bell unknowingly pissed off both Northerners and Southerners with him avoiding the slavery issue, just as those Neo-Liberals like Howard Schultz and Mike Bloomberg do today. Some things just never change, do they?
Nope Abraham Lincoln considered himself a conservative and a conservative president Calvin Coolidge passed anti lynching laws. Woodrow Wilson was a far left progressive demokkkrat who was base of support was southern progressive kkk Demokkkrats. Fdr, James m Cox, willian Jennings all progressive fat left demokkkrat who won and was funded by... you guessed it ,far left kkk southern demokkkrats. I keep hearing from liberal demokkkrats that there was a switch. Only switch was the demokkkrats started to taking away our guns and killing babies as revenge for taking their slaves. LINCOLN WAS A REPUBLICAN WHO KILLED LEFT WING DEMOKKKRATS
@Jackson Smith Oh yes, the party that a lot of people link with being too concerned about social justice and equality still to this day support the Ku Klux Klan. Because that makes total sense.
IcedMorning Did I say they support the KKK today? No. They changed their tactics. LBJ was a racist Texas Democrat who called the 1957 civil rights bill the n bill. Did he suddenly become a enlighted non racist who wanted to help blacks? No. He realized, I can’t cash in on white racism anymore, I’ve got to create a new type of dependant class of people. It’s the same thing now with illegal immigrants and Hispanics. The black vote has been milked dry so they move on to the next one. The Republicans have never changed and there has never been a single Republican who pushed for segregation
being progressive in the 1860s is way different than being progressive now in day
@@jacksonsmith4935 Not only was Lincoln a self-identified conservative, who started out his political career in the Whig Party which was itself explicitly so as well, but Douglas was the leader of the prominent progressive “Young America” faction of the Democratic Party in those days which modeled itself on liberal youth-centered movements active in Europe such as “Young Germany”, “Young Italy”, “Young Ireland”, “Young Poland”, “Young Belgium”, etc. They claimed the mantle of the radical Jeffersonian/Jacksonian tradition, were favorable toward the legacy of the French Revolution and aligned themselves with the Europeans partaking in the Revolutions of 1848.
I love you Mr Beat but the soundtrack of this video is overwhelming and makes the video difficult to follow.
Douglas immediately went on a speaking tour and encouraged the preservation of the union after losing the election, throwing his weight behind Lincoln. Class act and reading the room masterwork.
Today i learned i share a birthday with Mr Beat
Hey you're a Scorpio like me, respect
A rising star from Illinois?
*You don't say?*
Well that one state he recoeved 1.1 percent of the vote evenfually became west virginia
Buchanan said in his Inaugural address in 1857 that he would not run for reelection in 1860 (because of his age). You made it sound like the Party turned on him, whereas he retired from nearly 50 years of public service and supported his former VP, Breckinridge in the election of 1860.
James buchanan did well not to seek a second term, because James buchanan was a disastrous President(Even Donald trump and Joe biden look spectacular compared to him)he was an extremely inept President, the people were going to send him to hell in the next Elections, his defeat in 1860 was assured.
@@neutral7786 And your point is??
It's not like that he tried to get renominated but quitted halfway through because of his "disastrous" first term or something, he clearly said in his very first speech as president that he wouldn't seek another term, and he honored that pledge
What was the song in the background for this video its awesome
Bro that's the confederate anthem
@@redisgreatYT Yep unofficial anthem but officially racist!
@@ckliffames1 omg!! Yes thank you so much I agree with you 100%
I believe that the Union Dixie song is so much better it's a gosh darn Patriotic song and people should play it more often. 😁😎
I would vote Lincoln this election
1:52 oh wait i didn’t know that.
Sorry Oregon
0:52 I'm from New Zealand and I happen to be a direct descendant of one of the most prominent and impactful Fire Eaters, William L. Yancey. But i'm ardently anti-racist / pro-BLM so I feel pretty cringe about it.
You arent your ancetors
Who would you vote for? Lincoln or Douglas and for Southerners John Bell or John C Breckenridge. I would vote for Lincoln.
I vote for western succession to have a three way civil war.
Kyle & Chung me too
(Southern Canadian/Northern American)
Can you tell me what the name of that recording of dixi is? (Who sang it?)
3:23 I THOUGHT I CRACKED MY SCREEN 😭💀
Sadly, Steven Douglas died one year later.
Very informative
I thought the thumbnail said John Tyler and I was so confused 💀
There was a plan to try and make Everett Everest, the Constitutional Union Vice President nominee, President. For a while it looked like the three candidates would coordinate their campaigns and only campaign in there regions and not bother anywhere else. Breckinridge campaigning in the deep south, Bell campaigning in the upper south and Douglas campaigning in northern states. The plan was to make sure Lincoln did not get elected. Send it to the house with Lincoln getting the least of the Electoral College votes so he would be eliminated. If that had happened the House would not have been likely to choose a winner. The Senate chooses the VP. Everett was very popular among Senators and would have most likely won and would then have become President if the House didn't make a decision in time. It fell apart when the current and former living Presidents all endorsed Breckinridge. He then thought he could win outright.
Untrue. Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan, probably, but Van Buren endorsed Douglas. I don't know who Fillmore endorsed but he opposed secession.
You are right. I should have been more specific. It was the Pierce and Buchanan endorsement of Breckenridge that put that plan to an end. I believe Fillmore endorsed Bell.
@@TheRennDawg That sounds right. Bell seems in line with Fillmore's politics and Bell was a former Whig who supported the Compromise of 1850. In fact Fillmore asked Bell to be in his Cabinet but Bell stayed in the Senate.
I hear DixieLand
William Seward probably would've been a fairly decent president
But he became Secretary of State anyway. Well at least he could be better than Pierce and Buchanan have
anyone else watching at school? no just me? okay then........
81% voted...wow, I think that may be the highest of any election
At 0:33, this country is splitting up into 2 countries!
When you say 81% of the population do u mean eligible population cause woman couldn’t obvi nor slaves so that’s a huge percentage there over 50%
of the eligible population
Mr. Beat, Do you create and share any viewing guides to go with your videos?
1:00 William Barksdale in Battle of Gettysburg lead a brigade for CSA Army. And he died
This election is where the ELECTORAL COLLEGE system saved our democratic Republic. Had it been popular vote, it would of been a mess. Yes the South who had been wrong on free trade (pushed by cotton growers and their backward slave driven agricultural dominance which kept many Latin American countries from developing as well) and slave labor (free labor) did succeed causing the Civil War it did finally in the end make us a Nation with a policy of economic mercantile policy of high tariffs and infrastructure building by government or supported with tax dollars that lead to our rapid rise to stardom internationally being the dominant view for the later half of the century except Clevelands terms which each lead to depressions and plight for the common citizen due to reduction of tariff and abandonment of internal improvements.
lincoln won the most votes so he won the popular vote
Lincoln still would have won through popular vote
I like to believe that Lincoln sealed the deal to win with his jawline