were basically the same during his second election as well as his first.
             In the election of 1860, there were several people running against Lincoln. Among the more prominent ones was Senator William H. Seward of New York. He was in the Whig, and then in the Republican parties, and he also was an antislavery activist. After the Whig party collapsed, he joined the Republican Party, but twice failed to be nominated for President. He was appointed the Secretary of State by Lincoln once he took office.
             Senator Salmon P. Chase of Ohio lacked the support of his own state. He also was a member of the Republican Party, and was an antislavery activist.
             For the Democratic Party, the nominee was Senator Douglas, the nation's leading Democratic. He was also an antislavery activist, and his beliefs angered the proslavery wing of th
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