Question

Both presidential candidates in the election of 1864 wanted peace. Explain how the saying "peace at any price" pertained to the positions of the two candidates and the outcome of the election. Use examples from the text.

Answer 1

it was January 1864, the opening month of the third year of the Civil War, and to war weariness was added political angst. It was a presidential election year, and as one jaded skeptic noted, "the quacking" of politicians—“the buzzing of presidential intriguing”—was audible throughout the land

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