Candidates and Platforms
Title: Candidates and Platforms
Year: 1860
Creator: Cincinnati
Description: “Lincoln’s platform is solid and substantial. Douglas stands on the crumbling Cincinnati plat form of 1856 while he straddles the Mason and Dixon’s Linen. For the South he waves a ‘Dred Scott Decision’ flag; for the North, the one marked ‘Unfriendly Legislation.’ Bell of the Constitutional Union party, has no platform on which to stand.”