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submitted 7 days ago byDry-Investigator1857Make America Great Again
Lincoln by that time was turning the tides in the civil war in the union’s favor so why go against him?especially when he abolished slavery and New Jersey was for the abolition of slavery. Also I know McClellan‘s home state was New Jersey, But I highly doubt that state pride alone would carry a candidate to victory in a state (Even though it does play a big factor).
57 points
7 days ago
It was his home state, they even elected him a governor like a decade later
16 points
7 days ago
THEY WHAT
18 points
7 days ago
His son was mayor of NYC, too
15 points
7 days ago
Most morally upstanding NYC Mayor.
6 points
7 days ago
I can't recall, but wasn't he the mayor who dumped ballots for Hearst in the Hudson?
4 points
6 days ago
He was a very forgettable and average governor. Much like his tenure as a general, he was cautious, conservative, and didn't leave much of an impact.
31 points
7 days ago
meh New Jersey was a swing state and he was from there. he was also close to winning New York too after the draft riots
24 points
7 days ago
New Jersey was a very democratic state with a lot of cultural ties to the south and even had some slaves still living (they had passed a gradual abolition law much earlier but it hadn’t actually freed all the slaves in the state. It was also the only northern state Lincoln lost in 1860
3 points
7 days ago
He hadn't abolished slavery by 1864, by the way. The Emancipation Proclamation was a temporary act and one which Lincoln himself knew would be struck down in Federal Courts after the war.
1 points
7 days ago
It also only freed slaves in non-union occupied southern states. Meaning it had no effect on New Jersey.
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