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War is on the horizon... Election results by Pony Express...
War is on the horizon... Election results by Pony Express...
Item # 692521
December 20, 1860
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Dec. 20, 1860
* Pony Express re. Abraham Lincoln's election win
* Pre Civil War Southern tensions - secession ?
Considerable reporting on national events that would soon lead to the Civil War.
Inside page reports include one beginning: "The Pony Express passed Fort Kearney early on Tuesday...with later California news. The official result of the Presidential election had been declared as follows: Lincoln, 38,721; Douglas, 37,964, Breckinridge, 33,971..." with more, ending with: "...the mining news from California, Oregon and Fraser River was encouraging."
Another page has almost the same Pony Express report.
Also: "Suggestions To Southern Men" "Separate Secession Voted Down in the Georgia Legislature" "More Scared Than Hurt, Or What The Seceders Will and Won't Do" "A Convention of Slave States" "Secession In North Carolina" "From South Carolina"
Eight pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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