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I'm coming up with Horace Greeley, but I'm not sure if you consider the Liberal Republic Party "major".
Greeley was nominated by both the Democrat and the ad hoc Liberal Republican parties. Dissident Democrats, unhappy with Greeley, formed the Straight-Out Democratic Party and nominated a lawyer named Charles O'Conor. He received less than 1 % of the vote.
Greeley died less than a month after losing the 1872 election.
What was the title of the "letter" he sent to Lincoln, through the press, about emancipating the slaves, and, in synopsis, what was Lincoln's response?
What was the title of the "letter" he sent to Lincoln, through the press, about emancipating the slaves, and, in synopsis, what was Lincoln's response?
That was "The Prayer of Twenty Million" which brought about President Lincoln's famous reply that his object was to save the union. If freeing all the slaves saved the union, he would do it. If freeing no slaves would do it, he would free none. And if freeing some, but not others, would save the union, he would do that.
Lincoln's main concern at the time was keeping the border states in the union, so he was not yet ready to turn the war into a crusade to free the slaves.
What legislation which had the effect of freeing *some* slaves was already in effect well before Antietam?
That was the Confiscation Act which gave legal sanction to the practice of treating runaway slaves as contraband of war, a practice started by General Benjamin Butler.
Which president had the longest inauguration speech but the shortest term as president?
William Henry Harrison.
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He lost his mind as well. 
