A history of the United States . f the folly of putting two Demo-cratic tickets in the field. The truth is, how-ever, that nobody at that time expected thatIJncoln could win with three candidates opposing himwas confidently expectedby the Southern delegatesthat no candidate wouldreceive a majority of theelectoral votes, and thatthe choice of a presidentwould thus devolve uponthe House of Representa-tives, in which event theyhad reason to hope thatBreckinridge would bechosen president. As thecampaign developed,however, and it becameevident that Lincolnwould carry more Statesthan had been antici
A history of the United States . f the folly of putting two Demo-cratic tickets in the field. The truth is, how-ever, that nobody at that time expected thatIJncoln could win with three candidates opposing himwas confidently expectedby the Southern delegatesthat no candidate wouldreceive a majority of theelectoral votes, and thatthe choice of a presidentwould thus devolve uponthe House of Representa-tives, in which event theyhad reason to hope thatBreckinridge would bechosen president. As thecampaign developed,however, and it becameevident that Lincolnwould carry more Statesthan had been antici-pated, Jefferson Davis,acting in behalf of theSouthern wing of the Democratic party, called on Douglas and proposed thatboth he and Breckinridge should withdraw so as to allowthe two Democratic factions to unite on a third declined to entertain the proposition, saying thatas he had received a majority of the votes in the Charlestonconvention, he did not think it was incumbent upon him towithdraw from the ABRAiL\M Lincoln. 344 Sectional Divergence Lincoln carried all of the Northern States, except NewJersey, where he received four of the seven electoral election His total electoral vote was 180, Breckinridgesof Lincoln ^2, Bells 39, and Douglass 12. The popularvote was as follows: Lincoln 1,866,000, Douglas 1,375,000,Breckinridge 847,000, Bell 587,000. With the election of Lincoln the more radical Southernleaders at once began to make plans for withdrawing from the Union and forming a Southern Confederacy,result was In his debates with Douglas in 1858, Lincoln hadregarded at declared : A house divided agahist itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endurepermanently half slave and half free. I do not expect theUnion to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall,but I do expect it will cease to be divided. Seward, whohad been regarded as the foremost leader of the Republicanparty, and who was later selected by Lincoln for the
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