There was also a party at the North which opposed Lincoln's reelection upon quite other grounds than those on which the Democrats antagonized him.
They were a part of an organized system of opposition, and designed to prevent the reelection of Mr. Adams, and secure that of General Jackson.
The reelectionof Washington may be justly considered as among the most signal favors conferred on the American people.
After an active canvass, the continued confidence of the people in his administration was manifested by his reelection by the largest vote ever given for a governor in Ohio.
Before the people and in the legislature, he was without a competitor in the ranks of his own party; and the unity of sentiment in favor of his reelection was a noble tribute of which any public man might justly be proud.
Fremont had taken a very decided part against slavery, and in Congress his course had been so unpartisan that he lost the support of his party, and a reelection was out of the question.
Alike in the whole Confederation and in the single Canton reelection is the rule; the rejection of the out-going magistrate is the rare exception(6).
For an election of President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, instead of through the agency of electors, and making them ineligible for reelection to a second term.
Douglas knew that he need not look in either direction unless he could first secure his reelectionto the Senate.
Wilson had declined a reelection to Congress because he wished to retire from public life, and he accepted the appointment offered by Grant with reluctance and only at the urgent solicitation of the latter.
The feeling for Mr. Lincoln's reelection seems to be very general, but much of it I discover is only on the surface.
He accepted a reelection as judge in 1852 for a term of nine years, yet he resigned a year and a half later because the salary was insufficient to support his family.
He had gained the confidence of the people among whom he lived to such a degree that his reelection to the supreme bench in 1852 had been unanimous.
The Republican State Committee made extraordinary efforts to carry this district, as they believed that the reelectionof Senator Trumbull would depend upon it.
As the summer wore on, so acrimonious grew the feeling of Hamilton's supporters toward the President that they seriously considered whether his reelection would not be as great a misfortune as the success of the Republican Party.
The opposition to the reelection of John Quincy Adams in 1828 was sincerely considered by him, and has been often described by others, as singularly causeless, unworthy, and even monstrous.
Van Buren is said to have concealed his attitude until after his reelection to the Senate in 1827.
He had aided the reelection of Rufus King, a determined enemy of slavery.
Rufus King's reelection to the Senate was believed to have some relation to the Missouri question, then agitating the nation.
About the time of King's reelection Van Buren joined in calling a public meeting at Albany to protest against extending slavery beyond the Mississippi.
It was also in 1820 that Van Buren promoted the reelectionof Rufus King, the distinguished Federalist, to the United States Senate.
Van Buren warmly supported Tompkins for his reelection in April, 1813, and prepared for the legislative caucus a highly declamatory, but clear and forcible, address to Republican electors in his behalf.
When he was a candidate for reelection he was fully aware that some officials of high station were using their prerogatives for the purpose of injuring him.
Moreover, he had supported Truman's reelection "in unqualified terms.
Actually, certain advantages accrued from the delay, for postponing the meetings until after the President's reelection enabled the committee to face the services with assurance of continued support from the administration.
He returned forreelection after accepting office, and was reelected by acclamation.
He secured his return, and sat in the House until the general election of 1863, when, upon presenting himself to his constituents for reelection he was defeated.
James Duncan, represented the constituency of Belfast in the Legislative Assembly, and was obliged to return to his constituents for reelection after accepting office.
A petition was filed against his return, and he was unseated, but upon returning to his constituents for reelection in the following October he was once more successful.
His own reelection as chairman was assured, and for the moment he controlled the Council, but his control would be neither undisputed nor certain to endure.
However, he was reelected tribune this year, although the manner in which his reelection was brought about is not very clear to us.
Gracchus did not present himself as a candidate for reelection on account of the law, or custom, against reelection to this office.
Nasica demanded of the consul Scaevola, who presided, to take steps to prevent the reelection of Tiberius Gracchus.
Only ten years after the death of Tiberius Gracchus the reelection to the office of tribune of his brother, Gaius Gracchus, was permitted.
Under the existing political conditions at Rome no great blame could be attached to an occasional disregard either of the law regulating the qualifications for office or the law, or custom, relative to the reelection of a tribune.
It only remains to consider the action of Tiberius Gracchus in presenting himself as a candidate forreelection as tribune.
His next measure, one to formally authorize the reelection of tribunes, was defeated.
The violations were in the main chargeable to the very class at Rome that was most bitter in the denunciation of Tiberius Gracchus for offering himself as a candidate for reelection as tribune.
Upon his reelection Gaius Gracchus, probably largely through the influence of Flaccus, introduced a bill to extend the franchise to all the Latin colonies and probably to all the citizens of the Italian communities.
His youngest son came of age just in time to cast the tenth vote in the family for the reelection of Woodrow Wilson.
Reelection has since continued him upon the bench of the superior court, where he has displayed a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution.
By the beginning of December, the reelection of Washington being conceded, it appeared that the election of the Vice President "had been seized as a proper one for expressing the public sense on the doctrine of the monocrats.
The principal bond of union was the common desire to prevent the reelection of Grant.
Yet in spite of this prominence, Taylor, after his defeat for reelection in 1875, retired to his farm and to obscurity.
The campaign for his reelection had begun and the outlook for his success and that of his party seemed at this moment as dubious as that for the conclusion of the war.
It was a great price, but whatever else the capture of Atlanta did, it ensured the reelection of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States.
The opposition to Lincoln's reelection was strong, and for many weeks it was believed on all sides that his defeat was inevitable.
It is extremely important in that it corrects extravagant errors concerning Marshall's resignation from the Council of State and his reelection to the legislature.
In 1821, his health being seriously impaired, he declined a reelection and retired to private life.
In January, 1839, he was a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate; the result was a deadlock, and the question was indefinitely postponed before any choice had been made.
Calhoun had contented himself with reelection to the vice presidency in 1828 on the understanding that, after Jackson should have had one term, the road to the White House would be left clear for himself.
Admitting to his friends that the situation looked "a little dubious," he exerted himself powerfully to bring about the reelection of the New Yorker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reelection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
