![]() ![]() The Democrats had flourished by being laissez-faire on slavery. ![]() Shortly before this print was struck, the nascent Republican party had met in a convention at Chicago, where they had chosen an outlier, Abraham Lincoln, as their presidential nominee. ![]() In fact, since the break-up of the fitfully successful Whig party a few years earlier, the Democrats had faced only a fractured opposition, a situation that the emergence of a new, national, anti-slavery party was about to change. At the time, the Democrats were by far the nation’s oldest political party. This masterly drawing from 1860 captures the terror and ugliness of the break-up of the then-dominant Democratic party.
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