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I’ll have to give that one some thought but it’s a great question. I know Lincoln was a surrogate campaigner for William Henry Harrison. Before the Republicans were originated, Lincoln was Whig.
Ok, as a more expanded answer, I would say that it’s unrealistic to think that we can turn back the clock to the days when campaigning was considered undignified, because politics is a whole different animal than it was back then. There was no such thing as a career politician back then. It’s a lot different now.