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The 1856 presidential race was once essentially the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and every other congressman beat a US senator senseless at the floor of the Senate. But amid the entire violence, the campaign of the brand new Republican Party, headed by famed explorer John C. Frémont, offered a ray of hope: an incredible party dedicated to limiting the spread of slavery. For the primary time, women and African Americans actively engaged in a presidential contest, and the candidate’s wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, played a central role in both planning and executing strategy, and was once a public face of the campaign. Even enslaved blacks within the South took hope from Frémont’s crusade.
The 1856 campaign was once also run against the backdrop of a country at the move, with settlers continuing to spread westward facing unimagined horrors, a terrible natural disaster that took hundreds of lives within the South, and one of the famous Supreme Court cases in history, which set the stage for the Civil War. Frémont lost, but his strong showing within the North proved that a sectional party could win a national election, blazing the trail for Abraham Lincoln’s victory four years later.
The 1856 campaign was once also run against the backdrop of a country at the move, with settlers continuing to spread westward facing unimagined horrors, a terrible natural disaster that took hundreds of lives within the South, and one of the famous Supreme Court cases in history, which set the stage for the Civil War. Frémont lost, but his strong showing within the North proved that a sectional party could win a national election, blazing the trail for Abraham Lincoln’s victory four years later.
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