I was listening to a radio program about two weeks ago about Presidential Inaugurations. The historians interviewed claimed that, during the election of 1876, people were pushing Tilden to have New York secede, and none other than George McClellan was offering to march on Washington...
Now after a few cursory google searches and skimming the indices of some of the books on that period that I have I haven't found anything even suggesting that this is true. That being said I think it's a really interesting possibility and I was wondering if you guys had heard anything about it?