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Abraham Lincoln suspended habues corpus in the name of preserving the union, even though today we consider it his lowest moment as president.
What if he suspended the 1864 presidential elections. His political enemies feared he would, and some of his advisors suggested it. We have no evidence it was ever seriously considered. We know he feared losing, so he always planned on an election.
Say the Union has some major fuckupsand the CSA get extremely lucky that they are in a position to attack Washington D.C , St.Louis, Philadelphia and maybe Cincinnati.
Of course, the CSA can't and the Union might control Tennessee and New Orleans. Basically a situation where either side can win the war but can't make the other sue for peace or surrender.
Lincoln decides he would lose, and he needs to save the Union. Plus he believes it would be dangerous to have elections in the border states and be distracted.
So he suspends the election until the war is over hopefully by 1866 or 1868.
Of course congress would be in an uproar. Here's another idea never considered by Lincoln but some claim he was advised. Keep in army in DC to frighten congress.
Congress feared this throughout the war. After Lincoln was shot, General Sherman negotiated a surrender of all of General Johnson's army. Congress was so shocked they order the negotiations to be vaulted cuz they feared Sherman would March his army into Washington to launch a coup
And McCellen thought about. Just food for thought
What if he suspended the 1864 presidential elections. His political enemies feared he would, and some of his advisors suggested it. We have no evidence it was ever seriously considered. We know he feared losing, so he always planned on an election.
Say the Union has some major fuckupsand the CSA get extremely lucky that they are in a position to attack Washington D.C , St.Louis, Philadelphia and maybe Cincinnati.
Of course, the CSA can't and the Union might control Tennessee and New Orleans. Basically a situation where either side can win the war but can't make the other sue for peace or surrender.
Lincoln decides he would lose, and he needs to save the Union. Plus he believes it would be dangerous to have elections in the border states and be distracted.
So he suspends the election until the war is over hopefully by 1866 or 1868.
Of course congress would be in an uproar. Here's another idea never considered by Lincoln but some claim he was advised. Keep in army in DC to frighten congress.
Congress feared this throughout the war. After Lincoln was shot, General Sherman negotiated a surrender of all of General Johnson's army. Congress was so shocked they order the negotiations to be vaulted cuz they feared Sherman would March his army into Washington to launch a coup
And McCellen thought about. Just food for thought