{"title":"Nativism Struggles: 1858–60","authors":"Marius M. Carriere","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496816849.003.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 discusses how some Know Nothing felt the American party’s candidates’ inaction and the lethargy of the party’s leaders led to the party’s defeat in 1857. Some Know Nothings continued to oppose the Democrats and the Democrats’ radicalism, but the party witnessed its strength reduced to the New Orleans area. The party did remain successful in New Orleans and many old Whigs and Know Nothings continued to resist the Democrats. This chapter discusses the 1859 state election when an “Opposition” ticket appeared to replace the Know Nothings. In 1860, remnants of Know Nothings, Whigs, and a few Democrats refused to support Breckinridge and hoped to avoid a national disaster. These conservative men supported the Constitutional Union party, with a few old Know Nothings deciding not to “accept Unionism at any price,” and going with Breckinridge. In May 1862, Know Nothingism disappeared with the Know Nothing mayor of New Orleans surrendering the city to the Union forces","PeriodicalId":244617,"journal":{"name":"The Know Nothings in Louisiana","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Know Nothings in Louisiana","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816849.003.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 5 discusses how some Know Nothing felt the American party’s candidates’ inaction and the lethargy of the party’s leaders led to the party’s defeat in 1857. Some Know Nothings continued to oppose the Democrats and the Democrats’ radicalism, but the party witnessed its strength reduced to the New Orleans area. The party did remain successful in New Orleans and many old Whigs and Know Nothings continued to resist the Democrats. This chapter discusses the 1859 state election when an “Opposition” ticket appeared to replace the Know Nothings. In 1860, remnants of Know Nothings, Whigs, and a few Democrats refused to support Breckinridge and hoped to avoid a national disaster. These conservative men supported the Constitutional Union party, with a few old Know Nothings deciding not to “accept Unionism at any price,” and going with Breckinridge. In May 1862, Know Nothingism disappeared with the Know Nothing mayor of New Orleans surrendering the city to the Union forces