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The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
deeply divided the nation was over slavery
It moved toward the West
illinois
1860-1904
He was a southerner, and had held slaves at one point but by 1860 he did not support slavery.
the roots and growth of slavery 1650 and 1860
Because Lincoln would not allow any extension of slavery
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
Illinois is the Civil War was a northern state that didn't believe in slavery.
When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, his views on slavery were already known and included:
The Democratic party split in 1860 over slavery, in particular the question of whether it would be allowed in the new states that might join the union.
Augustana College - Illinois - was created in 1860.
Wheaton College - Illinois - was created in 1860.
It was the Wilmot Proviso that declared that there should be no slavery in the new states. This gained support in Congress, and by 1860 most Northerners agreed with it, while tolerating slavery in its traditional heartlands. That was how Lincoln got elected.
The Northern and Southern Democrats differed over the party's platform on slavery in 1860 since the southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the platform and Northerners wanted the platform to support popular sovereignty as a way of deciding whether a territory became a free state or a slave state.
Generally all the north was against slavery, including Illinois.