Because he won the Northern vote, and only 2 countries in the South.
Constitutional Party candidate John Bell condemned sectional political parties and sectional strife in the U.S. Senate.
John Bell condemned sectional political parties.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln.
yes
Go ask Abe Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
In 1832 Lincoln ran for the Illinois Legislature and lost.