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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: platform; General Sherman's successes in the South excited the
enthusiasm of the people; and when at last the Unionists, rousing
from their midsummer languor, began to show their faith in the
Republican candidate, the hopelessness of all efforts to
undermine him became evident.
XII. THE CONQUEROR OF A GREAT REBELLION
The presidential election of 1864 took place on November 8. The
diary of one of the President's secretaries contains a curious
record of the way the day passed at the Executive Mansion. "The
house has been still and almost deserted. Everybody in Washington
and not at home voting seems ashamed of it, and stays away from
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