Elected Vice President

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    “I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “[If not re-elected in 1864] 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.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)