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There was , indeed , no choice expressed by the popular vote , though the Republicans carried enough states of large population — such as New York , Pennsylvania and Ohio - to give Lincoln one hundred and eighty electoral votes against ...
There was , indeed , no choice expressed by the popular vote , though the Republicans carried enough states of large population — such as New York , Pennsylvania and Ohio - to give Lincoln one hundred and eighty electoral votes against ...
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McClellan was nominated by the Democrats on a platform which meant that every vote for him was a vote against the McClellan received 1,800,000 votes against Lincoln's 2,200,000 , and it seems probable that he would have got an actual ...
McClellan was nominated by the Democrats on a platform which meant that every vote for him was a vote against the McClellan received 1,800,000 votes against Lincoln's 2,200,000 , and it seems probable that he would have got an actual ...
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But now the negroes were free , although they were not allowed to vote , and each negro had to be counted as a whole person . The result would be an increased representation from all the Southern states . . . in short , the South would ...
But now the negroes were free , although they were not allowed to vote , and each negro had to be counted as a whole person . The result would be an increased representation from all the Southern states . . . in short , the South would ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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