Candidates Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

“The feckless President Buchanan, who opposed secession, thought the federal government powerless to stop it, and in his last annual message blamed the “incessant…

— Ron Chernow

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

— Belle Boyd

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

— Belle Boyd

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did…

— G. Edward Griffin

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

— Bruce Catton

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

— Jesse Jackson

“Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in uncharted territory.…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the…

— Duff Green

“any time I feel like quitting, I just look at a framed poster I have hanging in our office: • He failed in business in…

— Mona Lisa Harding

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

— Frederick Douglass

“That he won at all is the result of an electoral college system originally designed to protect the power of slave owners.”

— Naomi Klein

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson