{"id":2353,"date":"2024-01-20T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?page_id=2353"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:42:33","slug":"election-of-1864","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/course-syllabus\/election-of-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cWe cannot have free government without elections.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/response-to-serenade-november-10-1864\/\">Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YoYiPqnpDKs?si=hmiyi9DdVeV4v0DN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Douglass and the Election of 1864<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>In an especially intemperate outburst Douglass characterized Lincoln&#8217;s position as <em>&#8216;Do evil by choice, right from necessity.&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;Oakes, p. 225<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Gave his own version of the Gettysburg Address in January 1864 called <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/frederick-douglass-mission-of-the-war-1864\/\">&#8220;Mission of the War&#8221; speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Radicals had mixed views on Lincoln by early 1864; see Anna Dickinson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/anna-dickinson-perils-of-the-hour-1864\/\">&#8220;Perils of the Hour&#8221;<\/a> speech<\/li>\n<li>Possible radical alternatives to Lincoln included Treasury secretary Salmon Chase and Union general John Fremont<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Timeline:\u00a0 Summer 1864<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>June 8:\u00a0 National Union Party nominates Lincoln for president<\/li>\n<li>June 30:\u00a0 Lincoln accepts Salmon Chase&#8217;s resignation<\/li>\n<li>July 18:\u00a0 Lincoln releases peace terms in response to Horace Greeley<\/li>\n<li>August 14:\u00a0 Radicals meet in New York plotting to remove Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>August 19:\u00a0 Lincoln and Frederick Douglass meet for second time<\/li>\n<li>August 23:\u00a0 Lincoln drafts secret memo<\/li>\n<li>August 31:\u00a0 Democrats nominate McClellan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Lincoln&#8217;s Blind Memorandum<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/blind-memorandum-august-23-1864\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1584px) 100vw, 1584px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM.png 1584w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM-1024x888.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM-768x666.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM-1536x1332.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-7.34.23-AM-346x300.png 346w\" alt=\"Blind memo\" width=\"1584\" height=\"1374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2014\/12\/George_B_McClellan_-_retouched.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1145\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2014\/12\/George_B_McClellan_-_retouched-240x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2014\/12\/George_B_McClellan_-_retouched-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2014\/12\/George_B_McClellan_-_retouched-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2014\/12\/George_B_McClellan_-_retouched.jpg 1108w\" alt=\"McClellan\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Abraham Lincoln was re-nominated for president in June 1864 by the newly organized National Union Party with Democrat Andrew Johnson as his running mate. Yet on Tuesday, August 23, 1864, Lincoln wrote a secret memorandum that began, \u201cThis morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected.\u201d\u00a0 He then proceeded to sketch out a plan for cooperation with the next President-Elect in the event of his own defeat.\u00a0 He did not know for sure at that time, but he anticipated that his successful partisan opponent might be General George McClellan, who would in fact be nominated by the Democrats in late August 1864 as their nominee for president.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider a close reading of documents from the 1864 election, such as the blind memorandum, or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/scsm000249\/\">political party platforms<\/a>, or some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1864\/cartoons-1864-list.asp?Year=1864\">political cartoons from the 1864 campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Tuesday, November 8, 1864<\/h2>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><span class=\"markkq9yqqfxf\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2569\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-234x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-800x1024.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-768x983.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-900x1151.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE.png 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>John<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark7kmvueljx\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Phillips<\/span>\u00a0(1760-1865)<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Sturbridge, MA<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Baptist\u00a0<span class=\"mark0yynydd89\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">deacon<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Democrat<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Voting for Washington and Lincoln (1864) and in every election in between except for 1860, when he was too sick to vote<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">F.W. Emmons wrote Lincoln about the episode on November 9, 1864<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Phillips rode two miles with son Edward (age 79) to vote at town hall<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">AL responded on November 21, 1864 expressing his gratitude<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Phillips image was featured in Harper&#8217;s, December 10, 1864 with short article<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe cannot have free government without elections.\u201d \u2014Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864 \ufeff Douglass and the Election of 1864 In an especially intemperate outburst Douglass characterized Lincoln&#8217;s position as &#8216;Do evil by choice, right from necessity.&#8217;\u00a0&#8211;Oakes, p. 225 Gave his own version of the Gettysburg Address in January 1864 called &#8220;Mission of the War&#8221; speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2353\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}