Chapter 34:
- The Presidential canvass of 1864 in the North. -- its relations to the military campaign. -- review of parties in the North. -- a general distinction founded on two questions. -- composition of the party opposing Mr. Lincoln's administration. -- the doctrines of the Black Republican party impossible to be defined. -- how the party changed and shifted through the war. -- opinions of Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay. -- modern verification of Mr. Clay's charge of “amalgamation.” -- policy of the Black Republican party at the beginning of the war. -- Mr. Lincoln's instincts of unworthiness. -- how the peace party in the North made the first false step. -- growth of the power of Lincoln's administration. -- its measures of terrour. -- moderation of the Confederacy towards “Union men” and dissentients. -- some account of arrests in the North. -- Lincoln's detective system. -- comparative impossibility of maintaining an opposition party in the North. -- infamous conduct of “war Democrats.” -- the conservative phalanx in the Congress at Washington. -- a record of its votes. -- reassurance of the conservative party in 1864. -- the party issues of 1864, with reference to “reconstruction.” -- Convention of the Government party at Baltimore. -- its “platform.” -- pretermission of the condition of State abolition of slavery. -- how this condition was afterwards inserted. -- Mr. Lincoln's rescript, “to whom it may concern.” -- history of the Niagara falls commission. -- how Mr. Lincoln's passport was made a political card. -- Democratic Convention at Chicago. -- its declaration of principles. -- McClellan's letter of acceptance. -- slavery no longer an issue in the war. -- the constitutional point at issue between McClellan and Lincoln. -- the Radical wing of the Republican party. -- the Cleveland Convention. -- the issues of the canvass as between the Democratic party, the Government party, and the Radical party. -- how the two last instead of the two first coalesced. -- “reconstruction” ante-dated. -- a faint hint of negro suffrage. -- the written issues of the canvass but little considered. -- the contest mainly on the fourth resolution of the Chicago “platform.” -- eloquence of the McClellan campaign papers. -- the election of McClellan impossible in view of the Federal victories of 1864. -- triumph of Mr. Lincoln and his party. -- analysis of the popular vote in his election. -- a large element of encouragement in it. -- the victory of the Constitution postponed
We have already referred to the great consideration which attached to the Presidential contest in the North which was now to take place; we have stated that it gave a new hope for the South in 1864; and we have
