Tag Archives: The election of 1864

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Posted on July 7, 2014 by SUMPTER

I don’t know how accurate the folowing letter is, but it would seem to have been quite a propaganda coup for a Democrat paper, especially during the 1864 presidential campaign. The Lincoln administration was too abolitionist for this letter-writing Republican … Continue reading →

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“on the edge of Niagara”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

A famous abolitionist was pretty unimpressed with the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. From The New-York Times July 1, 1864: WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE ADMINISTRATION.; Reasons Why He Cannot Support Lincoln and Johnson–Mr. Lincoln’s Re-election a Public Calamity. To the … Continue reading →

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“salutary retaliation” plank

Posted on May 27, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week anti-Lincoln Republicans convened in Cleveland to set up an alternative party to contest the 1864 presidential election. Here Frederick Douglass set out his expectations for the fledgling party’s platform. Understandably (Mr. Douglass pushed for the … Continue reading →

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peace is the word

Posted on February 25, 2014 by SUMPTER

Back in January New York Democrat Representative Fernando Wood gave a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives in which he advocated an immediate peace. He criticized both Republicans and Southerners for being in favor of dissolution. ” Those who … Continue reading →

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the wolf/sheep party

Posted on January 27, 2014 by SUMPTER

If this war ever ends, I’m going to miss the rhetoric in the Richmond Dispatch. I’m certain … I’m pretty sure sometime in the last three years I’ve read an editorial that maintained Northern Democrats were bigger threats to the … Continue reading →

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objects lesson

Posted on January 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

In the first month of the new year a conservative editorial from a Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region of New York State objected to what it saw as the war aims of the Lincoln administration -emancipation, increasing national … Continue reading →

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vast left-wing conspiracy

Posted on November 30, 2013 by SUMPTER

Power of the Press In the 1863 fall elections the Union ticket (Republicans and War Democrats) swept all New York statewide offices. Here a Democrat newspaper believes the problem to be Abolitionists sending their journals to families across the country … Continue reading →

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