On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, " Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

The Government Harness and Saddler Factory was started in 1860 to supply the army with leather products, followed by Cooper Allen & Co. in 1880.

Photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken by Brady on February 27, 1860 in New York City, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech

A chair used by Abraham Lincoln when he visited the Cooper Union in 1860.

Bradley's elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in Kenilworth, where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on 12 January 1862.

* In 1860, Abraham Lincoln came to the attention of the fledgling Republican party with his Cooper Union Address.

The phrase in reverse is echoed in Abraham Lincoln's words in his February 26, 1860, Cooper Union Address (" Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it ") in his attempt to defend a policy of neutral engagement with those who practised slavery, perhaps to appear more nationally oriented and religiously convicted in hopes of winning the presidential election later that year ( which he did ).

On October 10, 1860, at Cooper Institute Hall in New York Yancey advised Northerners interested in preserving the Union to " Enlarge your jails and penitentiaries, re-enforce and strengthen your police force, and keep the irrepressible conflict fellows from stealing our negroes …" Yancey cited southern fears that with abolitionists in power, " Emissaries will percolate between master slave as water between the crevices of rocks underground.

Cooper in his 1860 Munich training kit.

On July 31, 2009, FC Dallas announced that Cooper had been sold to German Second Division club 1860 Munich.

On January 13, 2011, TSV 1860 Munich announced that Cooper would not fulfill his contract which would run until June 2012 and would be joining Portland Timbers as a free transfer.

Cooper Creek, 400 miles further on, was reached on 11 November 1860 by the advance group, the remainder being intended to catch up.

Burke split the expedition at Menindee and the lead party reached Cooper Creek on 11 November 1860 where they formed a depot.

Burke split the party again and left on 16 December 1860, placing William Brahe in charge of the depot on Cooper Creek.

Lincoln elaborated his position in his famous Cooper Union speech in early 1860, arguing that the Founding Fathers expected slavery to die a natural death, not to spread.

Fort Breckinridge, Arizona Territory, ( 1860 to 1865 ) located at the confluence of the Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River was named in honor of the Vice President, though the name was changed after the Civil War to Camp Grant, Arizona.

It was named in honor of David Benton ( 1779 – 1860 ), who was an early settler in the county and a member of the Third Regiment, Tennessee Militia in the Creek War.

Elias D. Pierce and Wilbur F. Bassett made the first discovery of gold in Idaho, on Orofino Creek ( Canal Gulch ) in 1860, north of present-day Pierce.

The first discovery of gold in Idaho ( then Washington Territory ) was made by Elias D. Pierce and Wilbur F. Bassett on Orofino Creek ( Canal Gulch ) in October 1860, a mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of Pierce.

In 1860, Knob Creek Post Office was opened there.

Through the years they developed correspondence with other Baptist associations-Mount Zion Association in 1835, Indian Creek in 1840, Union in 1848, Mount Moriah in 1851, Mount Pleasant circa 1860, East Union in 1890, Ebenezer and Mount Olive in 1891, Liberty in 1894, New Liberty in 1925, and Mount Pleasant No. 2 in 1965.

By 1860, the family had moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where his father established a broom factory.

The Post Office opened on 1 September 1860 as Brushy Creek, and was renamed Lillydale in 1861 and Lilydale around 1872.

It is thought that Baron Ferdinand von Mueller made the first recorded European ascent of Baw Baw in 1860, naming Christmas Creek on one of his major collecting expeditions.

South Yarra opened in 1860 as Gardiner's Creek Road ( the former name for Toorak Road ) and served the Brighton line on what was called the " Prahran Branch " of the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company.

By this time, a road from Brisbane City to Kedron Brook had been completed with the Bowen Bridge opened in 1860, permitting the northern track along Gympie Road and Albany Creek Road to be used as an alternate route to the Old Northern Road.

They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat ( now Young, New South Wales ), in 1860 – 1861.

The 1860 United States Census shows the family living in Creek Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas.

The Post Office opened on 25 January 1860 as Morse's Creek and was renamed Bright in 1866.

The branch line to Faversham Creek opened 12 April 1860 ; the main line as far as Canterbury 9th July 1860, reaching Dover town 22 July 1861 and Dover Harbour 1 November 1861.

In 1860 the Whites ' household was a farm in Welches Creek township, Columbus County.

The masonry arch bridge over Wills Creek ( North Branch Potomac River ) | Wills Creek was built by the Maryland Mining Company in 1860 as part of the Eckhart Branch Railroad.

On Tuesday, 4 September 1860 they passed through Kerang, crossed the Loddon and camped at Mr. Fenton's Reedy Creek Run, making Camp XIII, ( their thirteenth camp since leaving Melbourne ).

By 1860, there were gold discoveries in the middle basin of the Quesnel River around Keithley Creek and Quesnel Forks, just below and west of Quesnel Lake.

Stuart's first attempt, in 1860, had reached Tennant Creek.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative water source to the now turbid River Torrens.

In 1860, Alcott was named superintendent of Concord Schools.

In May 1860 a significantly amended version of the Act was passed in both houses but was vetoed by President Buchanan.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

After the acceptance of Avogadro's hypothesis in 1860 it was understood that elements could exist as polyatomic molecules, and the two allotropes of oxygen were recognized as O < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 3 </ sub >.

The first instrumental analysis was flame emissive spectrometry developed by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff who discovered rubidium ( Rb ) and caesium ( Cs ) in 1860.

Aberfoyle Golf Club was built in 1860 and is located just south of town near the Rob Roy restaurant.

An equestrian statue was erected to his memory on the Heldenplatz in Vienna in 1860.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Bromine was not produced in large quantities until 1860.

By 1860, Cuba was devoted to growing sugar, having to import all other necessary goods.

Daniel Barringer ( 1860 – 1929 ) was one of the first to identify an impact crater, Meteor Crater in Arizona ; to crater specialists the site is referred to as Barringer Crater in his honor.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.