"A House Divided"
"Republican Convention selects Senator Seward for President and Senator Hamlin for Vice President"
-Chicago Tribune; May 19, 1860
"It's only Seward or Lane, so pick Seward!"
-GOP Campaign Slogan used in the North during the 1860 campaign
"Election to be decided by Congress"
-New York Times; November 12, 1860
"Stephen Douglas withdraws from contention, refuses to be elected by a 'corrupt bargain' after losing the popular vote "
-Philadelphia Inquirer; December 11, 1860
"Senate Contingent Election selects Lane; House balloting remains deadlocked as some members continue to vote for Douglas"
-The Boston Post; February 14, 1861
"Rep. Morris abandons neutrality and switches to Seward after intensive letter writing campaign"
-Chicago Tribune; February 19, 1861
"Oregon Rep. Lansing Stout refuses to back Seward or Breckenridge as House remains deadlocked"
-New York Times; February 25, 1861
"Seward withdraws from race - calls on supporters in the House to back Douglas 'without any conditions or reservations'"
-Philadelphia Inquirer; February 28, 1861
"Douglas re-enters race. Denies existence of any quid-pro-quo between him and Seward"
The New Hampshire Gazette; March 2, 1861
"Seward and Douglas to steal election from Breckenridge in corrupt bargain"
The Augusta Chronicle; March 2, 1861
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Rep. Stout switches vote to Breckenridge on 86th Ballot - denying Douglas a majority of delegations"
-New York Times; March 3, 1861
"36th House of Representatives fails to select a candidate, Lane to become acting President"
-New York Times; March 4, 1861
"37th House of Representatives selects Seward as President, Supporters of President Lane decry action as 'unconstitutional'"
-The Fayetteville Observer; March 6, 1861
"LANE v. SEWARD decided; Supreme Court holds new congress cannot hold contingent elections in divided opinion - Lane to remain President"
-The Philadelphia Inquirer; April 2, 1861
"Former Rep. Lansing Stout receives "significant" land patent in Multnomah County, Oregon"
-The Oregonian; May 1, 1861
"Shocking Allegations emerge that Stout was bribed by supports of Breckenridge and Lane with offers of land in Oregon to switch his vote in the House Contingent election"
-New York Post; September 28, 1861
"Multnomah Land Patent Scandal threatens to end Joseph Lane's Presidency as incriminating letters surface"
-Rutland Herald; January 28, 1862
"The act of New York, therefore, prohibiting a citizen of the United States from taking with him his slaves when he removes to the State in question to reside is an exercise of authority over private property which is not warranted by the Constitution"
-Chief Justice Roger Taney authoring the Majority Opinion in
Lemmon v. New York, April 6, 1862
"Slavery Legal throughout nation after shocking Supreme Court Decision"
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 7, 1862
"Joseph Lane becomes the First President to be Impeached"
-New York Times; May 3, 1862
"Senate convicts Lane by 43-27; short of two-thirds needed for removal "
-Poughkeepsie Journal; July 16, 1862
"Northern Mob seizes slave Elijah Washington from owner; Vermont state government refuses to provide for his return"
-The Post and Courier; September 2, 1862
"President Lane sends Federal troops to force the return of Elijah Washington to his owner"
-Philadelphia Inquirer; September 19, 1862
"Attempts to conduct an ad hoc slave auction in New York City lead to riots"
-Intelligencer Journal; June 4, 1863
"Such is the issue simply stated. On the one side are women and children on the auction-block; families rudely separated; human flesh lacerated and seamed by the bloody scourge; labor extorted without wages; and all this frightful, many-sided wrong is the declared foundation of a mock commonwealth. On the other side is the sentiment of Liberty, which insists that no such mock Commonwealth, having such a declared foundation, shall be permitted on our territory, purchased with money and blood, to impair the unity of our jurisdiction and to insult the moral sense of mankind."
-Senator Charles Sumner addressing crowds in Boston; July 11, 1863
"The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the slaveholding States to opponents of the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution."
-Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of Vermont from the Federal Union; December 20, 1863