 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...time a convention, styling itself the " Constitutional Union," met at Baltimore on the 9th of May, and nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President,...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for VicePresident. Again, at Chicago, on the 16th of May, the convention of that now imposing party, the National Republican,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1863 - 432 pages
...candidate, adjourned to meet in Baltimore. May 9. — Constitutional Union Convention at Baltimore nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice President. " 19. — -The Republican Convention at Chicago nominated, for President, Abraham Lincoln,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...dissensions, and under the name of the Union ticket offered to the votes of the people the names of John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Never had the country seen an election which excited more general interest or deeper feeling. The result,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...dissensions, and under the name of the Union ticket offered to the votes of the people the names of John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Never had the country seen an election which excited more general interest or deeper feeling. The result,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...Constitution of* the country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws." The convention nominated John Bell of Tennessee for president, and...Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice-president, the former of whom, when secession came, went over to the disunionists, and the latter of whom devoted... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Divorce - 1868 - 670 pages
...Constitution of the country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the Laws," and nominated thereon John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. The Democratic National Convention* had met originally at Charleston, South Carolina; had quarrelled... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Divorce - 1869 - 756 pages
...Constitution of the country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the Laws," and nominated thereon John Bell, of Tennessee, for President, and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. The Democratic National Convention* had met originally at Charleston, South Carolina ; had quarrelled... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...another party — the " Constitutional Union party" — had met in Baltimore on the 19th of May, and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for President, and...Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President. Its platform was, in brief, " The Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the Enforcement... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, having declined the nomination of the convention. The "Constitutional Union Party" nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President and...Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Thus the campaign of 1860 was a quadrilateral contest. The Charleston convention and that which nominated... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, having declined the nomination of the convention. The "Constitutional Union Party" nominated John Bell, of Tennessee, for President and...Edward Everett; of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Thus the campaign of 1860 was a quadrilateral contest. The Charleston convention and that which nominated... | |
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It professed to ignore the question of slavery, and declared that it would recognize no political principle other than " the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the Laws. 
