Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa jam'iyyar a 1854 ta abokan adawar bautar da rabuwa a cikin Commonwealth, tare da sabon sashin jihohi na farko da ya aika da nasa daga cikin wakilai sama da 600 zuwa Majalisar
Taron Jam'iyyar Republican na shekara ta 1856. Duk da haka, wakilai na Virginia sun yi watsi da jefa kuri'a ga shugaban kasa, maimakon jefa kuri'a ga William L. Dayton don mataimakin shugaban kasa; 'yan takara biyu sun ci nasara a gaba daya daga' yan Democrat James Buchanan da John C. Breckinridge. Wakilan Virginia zuwa taron na 1860 an fara raba su tsakanin mafi rinjaye ga Abraham Lincoln da kuma 'yan tsiraru ga Simon Cameron a cikin kuri'un farko da na biyu, tare da wakilai da ke zaune a kan Lincoln a kuri'a na uku don shugaban kasa, kuma sun zabi Cassius M. Clay don mataimakin shugaban kasa a kan kuri'un farko da na biyu (tare da Clay da aka ci nasara a taron da Hannibal Hamlin). Yayin da John Bell da Edward Everett na Jam'iyyar Tarayyar Tsarin Mulki, jam'iyyar tsohuwar Whigs masu ra'ayin mazan jiya wadanda suka goyi bayan bautar amma suka yi adawa da rabuwa, suka dauki Virginia, Tennessee da Kentucky, Lincoln da Hamlin sun lashe zaben shugaban kasa.