The Perfect Tie: The Election of 1876 (w/ Richard Lim of This American President)
FEB 5, 202464 MIN
The Perfect Tie: The Election of 1876 (w/ Richard Lim of This American President)
FEB 5, 202464 MIN
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“I scarcely ever passed a week under such depression of spirits. […] It is terrible to see the extent to which all classes go in their determination to win. Conscience offers no restraint; nothing is so common as the resort to perjury unless it is violence. In short, I do not know who to believe: if we win, our methods are subject to impeachment for possible fraud; if the enemy wins, it is the same thing exactly. Doubt, suspicion, irritation go with the consequence, whatever it may be.”<br /><br />—Lew Wallace, retired Civil War general, 1876<br /><br />Many people will call out elections in our lifetimes as being particularly divisive, whether it’s the 2000 election or the 2020 election. Those were indeed divisive, but very few elections have approached the divisiveness and the chaos unleashed in the United States Presidential Election of 1876, fought between the Democrat Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, in which the ultimate decision on who would be president was decided by one electoral vote.<br /><br />In this special five year anniversary episode of History Impossible in which we revisit this event only briefly touched upon in the inaugural episode of this entire show, we’re joined by Richard Lim of the <a href="https://www.thisamericanpresident.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">This American President podcast</a>, who helps shed some light into the details of this contentious election and this absolutely wild period of American history. With the election of 2024 looming large and with everyone’s imaginations running wild with how things will turn out, Richard and I thought it might be prudent to not just provide a historical reality check on just how wild things can get, but how Americans were able to extract themselves from such insanity while living through it.<br /><br />Happy five years and here’s to five more with History Impossible.<br /><br />For more detailed look at the Election of 1876, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-news-and-nasty-men-the-1876-election/id1223767856?i=1000385483453" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">check out Richard’s episode on that election here</a>.<br /><br />History Impossible has been made possible by the following generous supporters on Patreon, Substack, and PayPal. Please consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/historyimpossible" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">donating today</a> to help keep me free and this show alive:<br />David Adamcik<br />Michael Beach<br />Benjamin<br />Elias Borota<br />Johannes Breitsameter<br />Charles C<br />Cliffydeuce<br />CR<br />daddygorgon<br />Paul DeCoster<br />Nathan Diehl<br />Bob Downing<br />Rob Duval<br />Gavin Edwards<br />Pierre Ghazarian<br />Jayson Griesmeyer<br />Nathan Grote<br />Benjamin Hamilton<br />Peter Hauck<br />Carey Hurst<br />Thomas Justesen<br />Mike Kalnins<br />Bryn Kaufman<br />Leah Kodner<br />Benjamin Lee<br />Maddy<br />Mounty of Madness<br />Jose Martinez<br />Mike Mayleben<br />Judy McCoid<br />Jim Miller<br />Kyle Mohney<br />Kostas Moros<br />Ryan Mortenson<br />Skip Pacheco<br />David Page<br />Molly Pan<br />Jeff Parrent<br />Jean Peters<br />Brian Pritzl<br />AnaR737<br />PJ Rader<br />Gleb Radutsky<br />Aleksandr Rakitin<br />Phillip Rice<br />Chris Rowe<br />Jon Andre Saether<br />Alison Salo<br />Jake Scalia<br />Emily Schmidt<br />Julian Schmidt<br />Andrew Seeber<br />Joshua Simpson<br />Cameron Smith<br />Thomas Squeo<br />Brian Steggeman<br />Pier-Luc St-Pierre<br />Athal Krishna Sundarrajan<br />Jared Cole Temple<br />ChrisTX<br />Robert VS<br />Jonny Wilkie<br />Ricky Worthey<br />Michael Wroblewski<br />F. You
![“I scarcely ever passed a week under such depression of spirits. […] It is terrible to see the extent to which all classes go in their determination to win. Conscience offers no restraint; nothing is so common as the resort to perjury unless it is violence. In short, I do not know who to believe: if we win, our methods are subject to impeachment for possible fraud; if the enemy wins, it is the same thing exactly. Doubt, suspicion, irritation go with the consequence, whatever it may be.”<br /><br />—Lew Wallace, retired Civil War general, 1876<br /><br />Many people will call out elections in our lifetimes as being particularly divisive, whether it’s the 2000 election or the 2020 election. Those were indeed divisive, but very few elections have approached the divisiveness and the chaos unleashed in the United States Presidential Election of 1876, fought between the Democrat Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, in which the ultimate decision on who would be president was decided by one electoral vote.<br /><br />In this special five year anniversary episode of History Impossible in which we revisit this event only briefly touched upon in the inaugural episode of this entire show, we’re joined by Richard Lim of the <a href="https://www.thisamericanpresident.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">This American President podcast</a>, who helps shed some light into the details of this contentious election and this absolutely wild period of American history. With the election of 2024 looming large and with everyone’s imaginations running wild with how things will turn out, Richard and I thought it might be prudent to not just provide a historical reality check on just how wild things can get, but how Americans were able to extract themselves from such insanity while living through it.<br /><br />Happy five years and here’s to five more with History Impossible.<br /><br />For more detailed look at the Election of 1876, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-news-and-nasty-men-the-1876-election/id1223767856?i=1000385483453" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">check out Richard’s episode on that election here</a>.<br /><br />History Impossible has been made possible by the following generous supporters on Patreon, Substack, and PayPal. Please consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/historyimpossible" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">donating today</a> to help keep me free and this show alive:<br />David Adamcik<br />Michael Beach<br />Benjamin<br />Elias Borota<br />Johannes Breitsameter<br />Charles C<br />Cliffydeuce<br />CR<br />daddygorgon<br />Paul DeCoster<br />Nathan Diehl<br />Bob Downing<br />Rob Duval<br />Gavin Edwards<br />Pierre Ghazarian<br />Jayson Griesmeyer<br />Nathan Grote<br />Benjamin Hamilton<br />Peter Hauck<br />Carey Hurst<br />Thomas Justesen<br />Mike Kalnins<br />Bryn Kaufman<br />Leah Kodner<br />Benjamin Lee<br />Maddy<br />Mounty of Madness<br />Jose Martinez<br />Mike Mayleben<br />Judy McCoid<br />Jim Miller<br />Kyle Mohney<br />Kostas Moros<br />Ryan Mortenson<br />Skip Pacheco<br />David Page<br />Molly Pan<br />Jeff Parrent<br />Jean Peters<br />Brian Pritzl<br />AnaR737<br />PJ Rader<br />Gleb Radutsky<br />Aleksandr Rakitin<br />Phillip Rice<br />Chris Rowe<br />Jon Andre Saether<br />Alison Salo<br />Jake Scalia<br />Emily Schmidt<br />Julian Schmidt<br />Andrew Seeber<br />Joshua Simpson<br />Cameron Smith<br />Thomas Squeo<br />Brian Steggeman<br />Pier-Luc St-Pierre<br />Athal Krishna Sundarrajan<br />Jared Cole Temple<br />ChrisTX<br />Robert VS<br />Jonny Wilkie<br />Ricky Worthey<br />Michael Wroblewski<br />F. You](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a8c668a60b07d3cb3e35a8813764ce86.jpg&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
