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    "It seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected," he wrote. "The election was a necessity. We can not have free government without elections," he said. "If the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us"

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    "It seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected," he wrote. "The election was a necessity. We can not have free government without elections," he said. "If the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us"

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    Abraham Lincoln and the Doctrine of Electoral Necessity

    Essential Question (July 4, 1861)


    “Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too
    weak to maintain its own existence?”
    --Special Message to Congress, July 4, 1861

    Blind Memorandum (August 23, 1864)


    Executive Mansion
    Washington, Aug. 23, 1864
    This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this
    Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the
    President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will
    have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

    A. Lincoln

    [on reverse]
    William H. Seward
    W.P. Fessenden
    Edwin M Stanton
    Gideon Welles
    Edw. Bates
    M Blair
    JP Usher
    August 23, 1864

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    The Lincoln Doctrine (November 10, 1864)


    “It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the
    liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence, in great
    emergencies…. But the election was a necessity. We can not have free government
    without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national
    election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
    --Response to a Serenade, November 10, 1864

    2009 Matthew Pinsker

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