ELECTION DAY: Twenty-one of the 24 ministers in Springfield, Illinois vote against former Whig (nationalist) Representative Abraham Lincoln, presidential nominee of the Republican (nationalist) Party, because they personally know him to be a non-believer.
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Authority:
Illinois Constitution of 1848, Article VI, Section 1
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Illinois_Constitution_of_1848
References:
Stephen B. Oates, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths, (New York: Penguin Books, 1984), 53.
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