Emphasis Preaching Journal

Abraham Lincoln was in his darkest hours prior to the 1864 election. He wrote in a memorandum that in view of the national situation, he totally expected to lose the election. And he might have lost, had it not been for a sudden military victory that helped assure his victory instead. Of the 4 million who voted, Lincoln received 2.2 million votes -- but 1.8 million opposed him including men of high esteem like F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor of the farm reaper.