Fragile Freedom

May 18th, 1860

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Sinopsis

As the second Republican National Convention met in between May 16th and 18th, 1860 it had seemed like it would go to New York Senator William Seward. Experienced, from a large state, and without a serious contender with the National Profile necessary to swing the delegates, he had a road map to victory. He would contain Senator Simon Cameron in Pennsylvania, and let Congressman Henry Bates and Governor Salmon Chase split the Ohio delegates. Abraham Lincoln, who had just recently lost the Senate Election to Stephen Douglas, considered the front runner at the Democratic Convention that was to reconvene in Baltimore might make a stir but he hardly had the profile to mount a serious campaign against him. He would offer him the Vice Presidency on the second ballot to shore up his support and ensure the much needed Western States were represented on the ticket.  In many senses it was Seward's to lose as nothing seemed to stand in the way of his ambition or his path to the White House. It was his time and it was hi