Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E guzobere pati ahụ na 1854 site n'aka ndị na-emegide ịgba ohu na nkewapụ na Commonwealth, ebe isi steeti ọhụrụ ahụ na-eziga nke mbụ n'ime ndị nnọchi anya 600 na Commonwealth
Mgbakọ mba nke ndị Republican nke 1856. Agbanyeghị, ndị nnọchi anya Virginia mechara zere ịtụ vootu maka onye isi ala, kama ịtụ vootu maka William L. Dayton maka osote onye isi ala; ndị Democrats James Buchanan na John C. Breckinridge meriri ndị mmeri abụọ ahụ n'ozuzu. Ndị nnọchi anya Virginia na mgbakọ nke 1860 kewara n'etiti ọtụtụ Abraham Lincoln na ndị pere mpe maka Simon Cameron na ntuli aka mbụ na nke abụọ, ebe ndị nnọchi anya na-edozi Lincoln na ntuli aka nke atọ maka onye isi ala, ma votu maka Cassius M. Clay maka osote onye isi ala na nke mbụ na nke abụọ ntuli aka (nke Clay meriri na mgbakọ ahụ site n'aka Hannibal Hamlin). Ọ bụ ezie na John Bell na Edward Everett nke Constitutional Union Party, otu ndị Whigs ochie na-akwado ịgba ohu ma na-emegide nkewa, meriri Virginia, Tennessee na Kentucky, Lincoln na Hamlin mechara merie ntuli aka onye isi ala.