1859 Edward Everett hopeful presidential sheet music

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1859 Edward Everett hopeful presidential sheet music:
$45.00

Extremely scarce sheet music for Edward Everett, presidential hopeful for the Constitutional Union party. Eight pages.
\"Hark! Hark the bell is tolling!Through every patriot breastEmotions are rolling,Too deep to be repressed.\"

Everett was disheartened by the sectional divisions between the northern and southern states during the late 1850s.The1860 electionthreatened to produce a national crisis, with pro-slavery Southerners splitting the Democratic Party and threateningsecessionif aRepublicanwas elected President. A group of conservative ex-Whigs organized theConstitutional Union Party, which claimed as its sole principle the preservation of the Union.Supporters of Everett put his name forward as a candidate for president, but the party ended up nominatingJohn Bell, and Everett forVice President. Everett reluctantly accepted the post, but did not campaign very much. The Bell-Everett ticket received only 39 electoral votes, all from Southern states.

In the wake of the election ofAbraham Lincoln, seven southern states began seriously debating secession.Everett was an active participant in advancing the unsuccessfulCrittenden Compromisein a last-ditch attempt to avoid war during the early months of 1861.When theAmerican Civil Warbroke out in April 1861, he became an active supporter of the Union cause. He did not at first think highly of Lincoln, but came to support him as the war progressed.

In 1861 and 1862 Everett toured the northern states, lecturing on the causes of the war, and also wrote on behalf of the Union cause for theNew York Ledger.Proposals were put forward that Everett serve as a roving ambassador in Europe to counterConfederatediplomatic initiatives, but these were never brought to fruition.