1852 National Republican National Convention

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Four years have passed since the election of Charles Adams to the Presidency. Four long, war torn years. Beginning in December 1848, Southern states began seceding, forming the Confederacy of American States. Upon the election of John Calhoun to the Presidency of the Confederacy, an alliance was formed with the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, in what remained of the United States, President Adams appointed General Winfield Scott to head the Army of the Potomac, responsible with crushing the rebellion to the South. Thanks to loyalist forces in Tennessee and Adams' negotiations with border states, a number of states that could have potentially joined and strengthened the Confederacy ended up staying loyal to the Union. General Scott, cross the Potomac from Maryland into Virginia, began the first battle of the Civil War, facing down rebel troops. While Scott tackled forces in Virginia, General John C. Fremont was responsible for the Mississippi. Taking troops from Tennessee and Missouri, Fremont's forces have engaged in a long battle towards the sea. Meanwhile in the Confederate capitol of Charleston, South Carolina, President Calhoun passed away to be replaced by Vice President Jefferson Davis. As of now the war remains for the most part a stalemate with a slight edge given to the Union, calls from the Democrats and National Republicans for peace have persisted.

Now, the National Republican Party meets to decide its nominee for the year 1852. Many of the party's biggest names, former Presidents Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, as well as General Winfield Scott, have bowed out of the running. For Clay it was his age and a tire of presidential politics following four different campaigns. For Webster it was his appointment to Secretary of State in Adams' cabinet. And for Scott, it has been his responsibility in fighting the Confederacy. This leaves a "gang of rivals" left to scramble for the nomination of a party that has been out of power for nearly twelve years. The two front-runners are former New York Governor and 1848 Vice Presidential nominee Millard Fillmore, running as a nationalist in favor of the war against rebellion (though he does not call for the emancipation of slaves), and former Kentucky Governor John Crittenden, who unlike his mentor Clay, has stubbornly called for peace and a diplomatic reconciliation between the Union and the Confederacy.

[Donerail]

And thus,

[Goldwater]

Fillmore, because I want to win this war, not surrender to the south.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Fillmore, because I want to win this war, not surrender to the south.

I feel much the same way. Down with the rebels!

[Kitteh]

Fillmore is a terrible person and the other two are soft on the South. Bates.

[MrMittens]

Crittenden.

Fillmore is a terrible person and the other two are soft on the South. Bates.

Wait a minute, I'm guessing your from the south judging by your VA avatar.

[Kitteh]

Crittenden.

Fillmore is a terrible person and the other two are soft on the South. Bates.

Wait a minute, I'm guessing your from the south judging by your VA avatar.

I'm from Northern Virginia, which is hardly "the south". Plus being from a former party of the Confederacy does not give me any sympathy for their cause.

[MrMittens]

Crittenden.

Fillmore is a terrible person and the other two are soft on the South. Bates.

Wait a minute, I'm guessing your from the south judging by your VA avatar.

I'm from Northern Virginia, which is hardly "the south". Plus being from a former party of the Confederacy does not give me any sympathy for their cause.

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