Lyon and Abraham Hyatt represented this county, the Hon. Edwin Crosswell, of Greenburgli, was named as one of the two delegates from the Ninth District to the National Convention of the Democratic party, to be held at Charleston in the next April, to nominate its candidate for President. At a convention of Democrats of the Ninth District, dissatisfied with the action of the State Convention, William Radford, of Yonkers, afterward member of Congress, was chosen delegate to Charleston.

The State Convention of the Republicans was held in April, 1860, at Syracuse, and E. F. Shonnard, of Y^onicers, and Harvey Kidd, of Westchester, from the First Assembly District, Edmund J. Porter, of New Rochelle, and John J. Clapp, from the Second Assembly District, Odle Close, of North Salem, and J. H. Piatt, of Ossining, from the Third Assembly District, represented this county. The Hon. Edmund J. Porter, formerly Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, was chosen as the delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, at which Abraham Lincoln was nominated.

On the ticket voted for Presidential Electors, on the Republican side, the Ninth Congressional District candidate was the Hon. William H. Robertson, then County Judge; and on the other ticket, whose motto was said to be " Union for the sake of the Union," wa* placed the name of the Hon. Abraham B. Conger, of Rockland, formerly State Senator. Amid the heated discussions in the county, at the public gatherings preparatory to the election, peace and order were everywhere preserved ; and when the result was reached, although the majority in Westchester County was decidedly against Mr. Lincoln, the verdict was, as readily as after any previous contest, accepted and sustained.