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solved,-I do not expect the House to fall;
but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the
other. Either the opponents of slavery will
arrest the further spread of it, and place it
where the public mind shall rest in the be-

lief that it is in the course of ultimate ex-
tinction, or its advocates will push it for-
ward till it shall become alike lawful in all
the States, old as well as new. North as
well as South."

 
MEETING-Wednesday, December 7, 1864
(7 Electoral Votes)

PARTICIPATING POLITICAL
PARTIES IN MARYLAND
Republican (R)
Democratic (D)
VICTORS IN MARYLAND
President & Vice President
Abraham Lincoln (R) and
*Andrew Johnson-7 electoral votes
*A Democrat nominated by Republicans and elected
with Lincoln on the National Union ticket
ELECTORS
William J. Albert
Henry H. Goldsborough
William H. W. Farrow
William Smith Reese
R. Stockett Matthews
Isaac Nesbit
George W. Sands
OPPOSING CANDIDATES
President & Vice President
George B. McClellan (D) and
George H. Pendleton
GOVERNOR
Augustus W. Bradford, Unionist
Secretary of State
William B. Hill
MARYLAND ELECTION RETURNS
Lincoln and Johnson 40,153
McClellan and Pendleton 32,739
Lincoln and Johnson 55.1 %
McClellan and Pendleton 44.9 %

Lincoln and Johnson 7 electoral
McClellan and Pendleton
NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS
Lincoln and Johnson 2,206,938
McClellan and Pendleton 1,803,787
Lincoln and Johnson 55.0 %
McClellan and Pendleton 45.0%
Lincoln and Johnson 212 electoral
McClellan and Pendleton 21
MISCELLANIA
Lincoln was re-elected with a huge majority.
His second inaugural address, one of the
most beautiful ever delivered, his famous
words remain with us, "... with malice
toward none; with charity for all ... let us
. . . bind up the nation's wounds . . ." His
assassination soon after he took office for
the second term was deeply mourned.
Andrew Johnson who was thrust into the
Presidency by Lincoln's death, was almost
impeached because he refused to let Con-
gress usurp presidential rights. One senator-
ial vote kept him from this disgrace which
actually strengthened the presidency and
helped preserve the separation of powers
among legislative, executive and judicial
branches of government. He became em-
broiled in the conflict over reconstruction of
the Confederate states; he favored a mild re-
construction - Republican Party wanted a
radical reconstruction. He left office in dis-
grace, however, when he returned to public
life in 1869 he was elected to the United
States Senate becoming the only former
President to serve in this capacity.

 
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