{"id":95148,"date":"2020-07-01T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=95148"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:17:15","slug":"its-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/its-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/50065169776\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Douglas --&quot;It's all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won't be able to reach the White House.\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50065169776_3093749b65_o.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas --&quot;It's all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won't be able to reach the White House.\" width=\"476\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a>Douglas &#8211;&#8220;It&#8217;s all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won&#8217;t be able to reach the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This July 1, 1860 Chicago <em>Rail Splitter<\/em> cartoon identifies the split in the Democratic Party as preventing Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, nominee of the Northern Democratic faction, from reaching the White House. \u201cSquatter Sovereignty\u201d was a derisive term for \u201cpopular sovereignty,\u201d an idea advocated by Douglas that called for the voters in the territories to determine whether to legalize slavery or not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1860\/cartoon-1860-Medium.asp?UniqueID=25&amp;Year=1860\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Harp Week 1860 elections.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas &#8211;&#8220;It&#8217;s all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won&#8217;t be able to reach the White House.&#8221; This July 1, 1860 Chicago Rail Splitter cartoon identifies the split in the Democratic Party as preventing Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, nominee of the Northern Democratic faction, from reaching the White House. \u201cSquatter Sovereignty\u201d was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}