<P> The Democrats convened again at the Front Street Theater in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 18 . This time, 110 Southern delegates (led by "Fire - Eaters") walked out when the convention would not adopt a resolution supporting extending slavery into territories whose voters did not want it . Some considered Horatio Seymour a compromise candidate for the National Democratic nomination at the reconvening convention in Baltimore . Seymour wrote a letter to the editor of his local newspaper declaring unreservedly that he was not a candidate for either spot on the ticket . After two ballots, the remaining Democrats nominated the ticket of Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois for president . </P> <P> Benjamin Fitzpatrick from Alabama was nominated for vice president, but he refused the nomination . That nomination ultimately went instead to Herschel Vespasian Johnson from Georgia . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td_colspan="30"> Southern Democratic Party Ticket, 1860 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> John C. Breckinridge </Th> <Th> Joseph Lane </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> for President </Td> <Td> for Vice President </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 14th Vice President of the United States (1857--1861) </Td> <Td> U.S. Senator from Oregon (1859--1861) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Campaign </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td_colspan="30"> Southern Democratic Party Ticket, 1860 </Td> </Tr>

He represented the southern democratic party in the election of 1860