What enabled lincoln to emerge as president from the divisive party politics of the 1850s?

The democratic party was split between the north and south, and the third party never really matters at all. lincoln had the full support of his party

Explanation:

probally   a few days after there called

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”