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Cyrus / Who voted for Abe in the election of '64? Do we finally have the name of the single Adair Countian who voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864? Cyrus thinks he's found the answer in the writings of Judge H.T. Baker. Who was the brave Adair Countian who voted for Honest Abe in the election of 1864? Abraham Lincoln was, in three words, hated, loathed and despised in Kentucky. A quick look at the popular vote of 1864 indicates how deeply, how bitterly, that sentiment ran. Of the 25 Union states, Lincoln's opponent (and former General) George B. McClellan carried exactly three, to wit: Delaware and New Jersey, with razor thin margins of 51.8% and 52.8% of the votes, respectively; and Kentucky, with an incredible 69.8% of the 92,088 votes cast statewide. Lincoln had fared poorly in Adair County in 1860, when he received only a handful of votes, and that paltry sum plummeted in '64, when the sons (this was well before the days of suffrage) of old Adair cast a total -- a total, mind you -- of one lone vote for Honest Abe. To fully appreciate the sheer intestinal fortitude it took to cast that solitary ballot, harken back to your high school Civics class, and you'll recall that the secret ballot wasn't introduced in the United States until about 1890. Prior to that, one's vote was announced aloud to whomever happened to be at the polling place at the time. Had there been a newspaper in Adair County in 1864, the name of the voter, in the fashion of the time, no doubt would have appeared on front page. Sadly (I suppose), such a paper never existed, the name is long lost in the shuffle of time, and we're left to wonder and speculate about who quite literally spoke up for Mr. Lincoln that hot August day. However . . . In his "Sketches of Adair County," Judge H.C. Baker, left a tantalizing clue -- or was it an unintentional red herring? In Sketch No. 33, the good Judge wrote: "William Stewart, the other son of John Stewart, was a prominent Attorney of the Columbia bar, and as his death occurred only a few years ago, he is well remembered by our citizens . . . True to his political convictions and courageous in their advocacy he was from the birth of the Republican party a consistent member of it, a warm supporter of the great martyr president in the days when he had but few followers in Kentucky." CYRUS Central Ohio Bureau Chief This story was posted on 2006-02-15 05:52:04
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