He’s right, tho. Contemporary records show that he publicly started multiple times before and during the convention that he didn’t want to be considered for the nomination. Also, because he was the Convention Chairman, he thought it be improper for him to be nominated because it would look as though he used his influence as Chairman to get the nomination. It is possible that he wash just playing hard to get and was purposely trying to publicly seem uninterested in order to get the Convention to draft him for the Nomination. It is a possibility. But as far as public statements and such, everything indicates that Seymour did not want the nomination.
@@kluge1245 I forgot about that comment but yes, it's going to happen for the first time since then. The three sitting presidents who refused to attend the next inauguration were followed by popular presidencies that won re-election.
@@shaizadamji3338 just remember, my young friend, whenever you start forming opinions about politics or.. well, anything, BE INFORMED! Do research and make sure your sources are reputable.
The new African American votes in the South, combined with the fact that Grant won the Northern States of Indiana, Connecticut and Pennsylvania by very narrow margins, led to the thought that a majority of the white voters in the nation preferred Seymour to Grant.
Mr. Beat, while i appreciate the other types of hosts here. I like your dry wit and delivery. It shows that you're an intellectual. That's also a winner in my book. A whole lot of hosts step outside of the box. Stop that you don't need to do that just keep on doing what you are doing.
I’m not sure Grant relied on the immigrant vote much ... most primary sources are pretty clear that immigrants favored the Democratic Party (as the “Party of the People,” specifically in Northern cities) by wide margins, specifically the Italians and Irish.
Election Rundown: Took place on: Nov. 3 1868 Members of the collage: 294 Elec. Votes needed to win: 148 Turnout: 78.1% (up 4.3% from 1864) Candidates: Republican Party: Incumbent Army Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant from Illinois. Running Mate: Incumbent House Speaker Schuyler Colfax from Indiana. Democratic Party: Former Governor of New York Horatio Seymour. Running Mate: Former Rep. for Missouri’s 1st Francis P. Blair Jr from *Missouri* Elec. Votes: Grant/Colfax: 214. Seymour/Blair: 80. Popular Vote: Grant/Colfax: 3,013,650/52.66%. Seymour/Blair: 2,708,744/47.34%. States Carried: Grant/Colfax: 26. Seymour/Blair: 8. Total Votes: 5,722,440. Fact for the election: First time a Republican was elected that wouldn’t be assassinated.
Three of the four assassinated presidents were Republicans: Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. Today's medical technology could have saved Garfield and McKinley.
Genuine history is seriously so interesting. An unending series of unpredictable events with humans doing their best to try to come out on top. We've come far from barbarians
His heart was in the right place for a lot of issues but unfortunately since he wasn't that into politics, many guys in his administration had free reign and his presidency had a lot of corruption. Emperor tigerstar did a video talking about it
How do we know the "Oh no, don't nominate me for President" act wasn't just for the public, while actually he (as chairman) was trying to make sure there was a deadlock so he could be nominated? I mean it sounds like House of Cards, but it's actually pretty straight-forward I think
Fun fact: Grant was the first president to not go with his birth name later examples Cleveland, Wilson,Coolidge he was born Hiram Ulysses Grant but hated being called Hiram someone accidentally put an extra S when he joined the military school his middle name was not Simpson
There was a vast polarization of the northern electorate based on religion. Even Lincoln only won 55% in 1864. Republicans did well with the more pious sects: congregationalists, methodists and Baptists. As well as the abolitionist quakers and mennonites. Since these groups were spread across the Yankee belt from ME to OR, there 75% to 80% with those groups allowed them to win a bunch of electoral college heavy northern states by thin margins like NY ILL and PA. This same dynamic is what allowed the gop to win several close elections once the democrats gained the pv advantage after reconstruction.
One thing I think is really fascinating on the county map is Alabama. It's almost exactly the opposite of what it is today. Back then, all the "Black Belt" counties were solidly Republican, with the rest of the state voting Democratic. Now, it's just the opposite. If you look into it a little bit deeper, you can see the rise of Jim Crow through the county maps alone. As Reconstruction came to an end, more and more "Black Belt" counties started voting Democratic as African American votes were suppressed until they became the most Democratic (captial D, not lowercase d) counties in the state. After the passage of Civil Rights legislation in the '60s, and especially after the rise of the Southern Strategy, the state takes the recognizable color pattern it holds to this day with the "Black Belt" (And more recently, Birmingham) voting Democratic, but the rest of the state voting solidly Republican.
There is no rule that the President and Vice President have to belong to the same political party; only that they run on the same ticket. John McCain almost chose a Democrat, Joe Lieberman, as his running mate in 2008.
According to the show How the States got their shape, when Virginia left the union it took the half of the capital that was originally in its state's boundaries, which was partly cause to why Lincoln was deadset to making sure Maryland didn't succeed as Maryland could take the other half easy for the south. So it's understandable that it took a while longer for Virginia as I'm sure there were northern states not to happy about losing half of the capital and Virginia wasn't too happy about the results of the war.
When you put 72% of the population voted, do you mean 72% of eligible voters or out of the US population? 72% seems way too high if women are included in that number.
I never knew that this election was the first election that gave African Americans the right to vote, also Grant, and Schuyler look like they can be brothers.
Here's a totally useless coincidence: HORATIO Seymour was the Democratic candidate in 1868 and Hubert HORATIO Humphrey was the Democratic candidate in 1968.
Your timeline is off....african americans didnt get the right to vote till the 15th amendment was passed and ratified which was because of president grants support
They already had the right to vote in many states - the Fifteenth Amendment just made it the national standard. Same with women, who could legally vote in some states 30 years before the Nineteenth Amendment.
The shift began with FDR, and was sealed and delivered with the 1964 election. At the 1964 Republican National Convention, black delegates were harassed and even physically attacked by white delegates. That pretty much ended major black support for the GOP.
Gotta love the false party switch narrative. Harassment happened everywhere. Still, the Republicans were the consistent friends of freedom by and large. This never changed. Johnson is the reason that immigrants and African Americans switched. He promised handouts. They took the bait and the black family was destroyed.
He was technically still a Democrat, in 1864 Abraham Lincoln ran on a unity ticket not on a Republican one any he picked Andrew Johnson, a southern democrat that stayed loyal to the union to balance the ticket, which ended up being a huge mistake, but nobody knew he was going to get assassinated
That's correct. Lincoln nominated a Democrat as his running mate as a way of showing his commitment to national unity, especially as the Civil War ravaged the nation.
Yeah, Johnson was a Democrat. He was only picked for VP during the Civil War for the sake of national unity. Once the war was over, he became a Democrat once again
Ulysses grant was only lucky that in both Choices his opponents were terribly flawed. Horatio seymour never wanted to be President and so he ran a terribly racist campaign to get the people to vote for Ulysses grant, as Horace greeley was a horrible Candidate who didn't even qualify for President.
Democrats learned a valuable lesson that you don't push or force someone to run for a office they don't want. If Horatio seymour wasn't interested in being President, then the Democrats should have understood that and not push him for a nominated, much less force him. You can see that Horatio seymour did everything possible to get the people to elect Ulysses grant as President.
So much for the National Union Party. President Andrew Johnson has returned to the Democratic Party, and the Republicans are back to their old selves again.
Old Straw Hat Andrew Johnson was a Democrat. However, I don’t know when, but the Democrats and Republicans eventually flipped values, so that’s probably why you are confused. Now, I feel like there’s lots of crazy people in both parties. Smh
He was our only National Union president, technically speaking. Because that was the ticket he and Lincoln ran on, since Lincoln was Republican and he was a Democrat.
@@thebestchemicalelement4455 He was a Democrat first, but became a National Unionist when he ran with Lincoln. He never joined the Democrats after Lincoln's death though, so he remains our only National Union president.
@@thebestchemicalelement4455 Well, okay. That makes this one of the instances where it's hard to classify a president's party. Just like John Tyler. He started his presidency as a whig, but then got kicked out of the party so some say he was really an independent.
