Answer:
The candidates for the 1860 election were Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, Stephen Douglas and John Bell.
Explanation:
The elections of 1860 had four candidates for president of the republic in the USA, among them Abraham Lincoln, who represented the republican party and had political proposals more focused on concepts of the left and had as one of the main proposals, the impediment of the spread of slavery in the new states, since the republican party positioned itself as an abolitionist party, that is, against slavery.
Another candidate was John Bell, who represented the party called the Constitutional Union. Although he did not declare himself in favor of slavery, he decided to remain neutral on this issue during the election campaign, as did his party.
John Breckenridge was the candidate of the southern Democratic party and presented proposals aimed at the extreme right. For him and the Democratic Party, slaves were the economic property of their owners and the federal government had no right to interfere in property. He did not believe that ending slavery was a moral issue, but he believed that it was a constitutional issue to maintain slavery as a property right.
Stephen Douglas represented the Democratic party that defended slavery. Douglas stated that a president must be totally faithful to his country's constitution and the American constitution allowed slavery to exist and, for this reason, each state should decide whether to use slaves or not.
