BOSTON, Thursday, Feb. 2. The election of a Speaker of the House causes much satisfaction, but no special demonstration has been indulged in by the Republicans of this city. At Manchester and ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Sonoma State political science professor David McCuan Credit: Courtesy of David McCuan This fall’s course comes ahead of what McCuan’s syllabus calls “the most important election since 1860” — the ...