[LINCOLN, Abraham]. National Union Ticket. For President, Abraham Lincoln. For Vice-President, Andrew Johnson. Electors...[26 names]. Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, [1864].
[LINCOLN, Abraham]. National Union Ticket. For President, Abraham Lincoln. For Vice-President, Andrew Johnson. Electors...[26 names]. Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, [1864].

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[LINCOLN, Abraham]. National Union Ticket. For President, Abraham Lincoln. For Vice-President, Andrew Johnson. Electors...[26 names]. Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, [1864].

Folio broadside (19½ x 9¼ in.), printed in bold decorative display types in red and blue inks, a large woodcut of a 26-star American flag with tassels in top portion.

PHILDELPHIA'S REPUBLICAN ELECTORS for the key 1864 Presidential election. It was widely accepted that the electoral votes in three states--Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania--were absolutely critical to Lincoln's bid for a second term. In the balloting on 11 October, all three states, by significant margins, went for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket. Henry Raymond of the Times commented--perhaps without undue exaggeration that "Tuesday's silent battle of voters has decided the destiny of the republic." When the balloting was finally completed and tallied, Lincoln had won re-election, garnering 212 electoral votes to McClellan's meager 21.

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