1856 John C. Fremont Political Campaign Medal Token DeWitt-JF 1856-12 (019)

Description: 1856 John C. Fremont Political Campaign Medal Token DeWitt-JF 1856-12Approximate Diameter 28mm CopperHoled For Suspension Considerable Red With Juicy Wonderful Patina In Refracted Light Highly Desirable And Very Rare 1856 campaign token - John C. Fremont (lost the election). Fremont, of California, was an American military officer, explorer of the western USA, and politician who became the first presidential candidate of the newly formed anti-slavery Republican Party. Fremont lost the election to Buchanan. Fremont crusaded against the expansion of slavery, while Democrat Buchanan (winner in 1856) warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Republican party campaign used the slogan "Free Soil, Free Men, and Fremont", crusading for free farms (homesteads) and against slavery. Some historians think that had Fremont been elected, the US Civil War would have begun 4 years earlier. The civil war was of course delayed until after Republican Lincoln's election in 1860.

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