 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 頁
...unsuccessful ballotings, they, too, gave it up and adjourned to meet in Baltimore, June 18th. May gth, there met in Baltimore a convention of elderly Whigs...composed of pro-slavery Democrats, nominated John C. Breckenridge, afterward a rebel general, for President. Subsequently, the regular convention, as it... | |
 | Richard W. Thompson - 1896 - 280 頁
...which it was but an incident. A Constitutional Union Convention had met in Baltimore, May 9, 1860, and nominated John Bell of Tennessee, for President, and...Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President, upon a platform stripped of all complications and pledged to "the Constitution of the country, the... | |
 | Joseph T. Derry - 1895 - 454 頁
...Breckinridge of Kentucky for President, and Joseph Lane of Oregon, for Vice-President. 49. The American party nominated John Bell of Tennessee for President and...Everett of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. This party declared that it stood for the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1895 - 480 頁
...recording the doings of the convention, " met in Baltimore. Southern men controlled the convention. They nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for president,...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for vice-president. Public opinion in the northern states regarded Everett as the greater statesman. One editor 1 Supplement... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Harvey - 1896 - 322 頁
...outside both the great organizations. This party, in a convention which met at Baltimore on 'May 9, nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice -President. No canvass before or since was as earnest or exciting as that of 1860. In the North... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 732 頁
...the Whig party. May 9 of that year representatives of the party held a convention at Baltimore and nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President,...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Delegates were present from about 20 States. They took the name of the Constitutional Union party.... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1897 - 422 頁
...of Oregon, for Vice-President. Previous to this (May 9, 1860), the National Constitutional Party had nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President,...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. On the 16th of May, the Republican convention met in the "Wigwam" in Chicago, and nominated Abraham... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 頁
...Several hundred professed Union and Constitution-loving citizens met at Baltimore, on May 9th, and nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice President. It was confidently believed and asserted by these delegates that their nominees would... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 520 頁
...the nominee for Vice President. The week previous, the " Constitutional Union " party at Baltimore nominated John Bell of Tennessee for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice President. The election resulted in the choice of the Republican nominees. Secession of South... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 764 頁
...Territories when necessary. The convention of the Constitutional Union party met in Baltimore, May gth, and nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President,...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President, announcing for its broad platform, "the Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws." The... | |
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It professed to ignore the question of slavery, and declared that it would recognize no political principle other than " the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the Laws. 
