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Updated: June 9, 2025
The Presidential elections approached, and the greater part of his time was given to party management and counsel. Washington's renomination and election were assured. The only obstacle encountered had been Washington himself, but his yearning for peace had again retired before duty.
In 1872 Douglass presided over and addressed a convention of colored men at New Orleans, and urged them to support President Grant for renomination.
He was the most charming of hosts and his conversation a liberal education. There was no division as to the renomination of Mr. Lincoln, but it was generally conceded that the vice-president should be a war Democrat. The candidacy of Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, had been so ably managed that he was far and away the favorite.
It lies with me to approve or reject." The Boss got upon his feet. "I dislike coercion," he said. The governor rose. "You need use none. No amount of it could hypnotize me into seeing a bad bill as a good bill." "Do you count the presidency so lightly?" "No American can count it lightly." "You face political suicide. Do you fancy your renomination for this office possible?" "No.
But if you have seen death touch your loved ones, or if you go home from here and behold fever ravaging your community, it will be poor consolation to your soul to remember that at least you were polite to an amiable man who desired the honor of a renomination." The faces of the convention showed that this blunt yet shrewd appeal to the individual antagonism of men had produced profound effect.
He continued by saying that he acquiesced in that decision, but felt it was due to a great patriot and the benefactor of the party that he should be tendered a renomination. Of course, they all knew it would be merely a compliment, as the governor's position had been emphatically stated by himself.
The first ballot showed 484 for Lincoln, 22 for Grant. The Missouri radicals had cast the vote for Grant; they rose and transferred it to Lincoln, and thus upon the first ballot he was nominated unanimously. There was some conflict over the second place. A numerous body felt, and very properly, that Mr. Hamlin deserved the approval of renomination.
Already nominated by many of the States, his friends had no difficulty in securing him a unanimous renomination from the Democratic National Convention which met in Baltimore late in May, 1832. Meanwhile Van Buren had been appointed Minister to England. After reaching his post, the Senate, to gratify Calhoun as well as strike at the President, rejected the nomination.
In January, James Buchanan, who was then minister to England, came to visit Hawthorne, and talked with him about the presidency, for which he considered himself altogether too old; but at the same time he did not suggest the renomination of Franklin Pierce.
"You are talking like children. Guff and growls can't carry this convention. That crowd hasn't even got a candidate for governor. Have you heard one mentioned?" "I don't suppose they would dare to go as far as that," said one of the committeemen. "Governor Harwood, by party usage, is entitled to a renomination, of course.
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