To: 4ConservativeJustices
Almost two thirds of the country - almost HALF of the Yankees based on the 1864 election results, sided with the Confederacy. I'm too lazy to look it up, but didn't President Lincoln carry every state but New Jersey in 1864?
Walt
178 posted on
09/10/2003 8:25:15 AM PDT by
WhiskeyPapa
(Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
To: WhiskeyPapa
I'm too lazy to look it up, but didn't President Lincoln carry every state but New Jersey in 1864? New Jersey, Deleware, and Kentucky, Walt. Laziness doesn't become you.
To: WhiskeyPapa
I'm too lazy to look it up, but didn't President Lincoln carry every state but New Jersey in 1864?Lincoln recieved 55% of the vote against a candidate pledging to negotiate a peaceful end to the war. And that only with help from the military suppressing Democratic votes.
181 posted on
09/10/2003 8:45:36 AM PDT by
4CJ
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