History of the United States . ts began to be calledRepublicans. 190. Presidential Elections of B^rNeTvorT/TpH,the presidential elections of 1856, three parties |\4i,^^ab Jacfrnofe/espe:were in the field: Democratic, RepubUcan, r.\ii^;eh Bo^o^;^°Ltes o1and American or Know-nothing. Their can- ^jSonSpan^a^ndMo?-didates were, in the order given above: James DifcJ^Ta^rytownr^N.^^y!;Buchanan of Pennsylvania and John C. Breck- of Kentucky; John C. Fremont of California and WilliamL. Dayton of New Jersey; ex-President Millard Fillmore of NewYork and Andrew H. Donelson of Tennes
History of the United States . ts began to be calledRepublicans. 190. Presidential Elections of B^rNeTvorT/TpH,the presidential elections of 1856, three parties |\4i,^^ab Jacfrnofe/espe:were in the field: Democratic, RepubUcan, r.\ii^;eh Bo^o^;^°Ltes o1and American or Know-nothing. Their can- ^jSonSpan^a^ndMo?-didates were, in the order given above: James DifcJ^Ta^rytownr^N.^^y!;Buchanan of Pennsylvania and John C. Breck- of Kentucky; John C. Fremont of California and WilliamL. Dayton of New Jersey; ex-President Millard Fillmore of NewYork and Andrew H. Donelson of Tennessee.^ The Americanparty made a weak showing in this election and shortly there-after vanished from view. The young Republican party made 5 A portion of the American party nominated Commodore Stockton forPresident, while those abolitionists who believed in political activity nominatedGerrit Smith of New York and Frederick Douglass, formerly a negro slave,born in Maryland. These candidates, however, received no electoral 256 ADMINISTRATION OF FRANKLIN PIERCE the exclusion of slavery from the territories its principal candidates of the RepubUcan party were from the North,and the membership of that party was confined almost whollyto the northern States. Southern leaders threatened secession,should such a party succeed in carrying the elections, and thefear of disunion doubtless influenced many northern voters tocast their ballots for the Democratic candidates. Fillmore car-ried one State, Maryland; the Republicans carried eleven States,all in the North; Buchanan carried the remainder and was elected,together with a Democratic majority in Congress. SIDELIGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS 1. Some months before Sumners speech on Kansas, Garrison had publiclyburned a copy of the Constitution in an open-air celebration of abolitionistsat Framingham, Mass. Some of the spectators hissed the act, while his fol-lowers applauded it; but the majority of the people of Massachusetts eithe
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