Getting on the ballot is a state issue. Obviously some slaveholding states had legislatures that weren’t interested in putting an antislavery candidate on the ballot. Who was going to organize the Republican Party in South Carolina in 1856 or 1860?
Getting on the ballot is a state issue. Obviously some slaveholding states had legislatures that weren’t interested in putting an antislavery candidate on the ballot. Who was going to organize the Republican Party in South Carolina in 1856 or 1860?