Processed by
Brent Abercrombie
June 2007
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
|
VOLUME OF |
1 oversized folder |
|
COLLECTION |
1860 |
|
PROVENANCE: |
Historical Collectible, Burlington, NC, February 2007 |
|
RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
|
COPYRIGHT: |
|
|
REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
|
ALTERNATE |
|
|
RELATED |
OM 0415 Presidential Election Tally Sheet, Carroll County, Indiana, 1860; OM 0426 Carroll County Polling Document, 1852 |
|
ACCESSION |
2007.0047 |
|
NOTES: |
|
The Presidential election of 1860 featured four candidates: Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge under the Democrat Party (Douglas for the North and Breckinridge the South), John C. Bell of the Constitutional Union Party (the party derived from the Whig Party), and Abraham Lincoln from the Republican Party. The election was heavily split between Northern and Southern values, most of which centered on the issue of slavery. And despite only receiving 39% of the popular vote, Abraham Lincoln won 180 electoral votes from the more densely populated north to win the election. Stephen Douglas was second in the popular vote at 29.5%, but was only able to accumulate 12 electoral votes. Southern Democrat John Breckinridge came in second with 72 electoral votes. The state of Indiana cast its 13 electoral votes in favor of Lincoln, who had slightly over 51% of the state’s vote. A year after the election, South Carolina among other southern states seceded from the Union, and the start of the Civil War soon followed.
Sources:
TheFreeDictionary.com. U.S. Presidential Election, 1860. Huntington Valley, PA: Farlex, Inc. www.encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com. 6/13/2007.
The collection contains a poll book and election return for Carroll County, Indiana for the 1860 Presidential election. The records, which are two documents of the tallied votes for each elector, contain all 247 voters by name at the Rock Creek Township Schoolhouse. The Democrat electors received 130 votes, while the Republican electors received 117 votes. The records do not indicate which candidates the voters voted for in the election.
|
CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
|
1860 Presidential Election Documents, Carroll County, Indiana |
Folder 1 |
For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:
1. Go to the Indiana Historical Society's online catalog: http://opac.indianahistory.org/
2. Click on the "Basic Search" icon.
3. Select "Call Number" from the "Search In:" box.
4. Search for the collection by its basic call number (in this case, OM 0448).
5. When you find the collection, go to the "Full Record" screen for a list of headings that can be searched for related materials.