November 2, 1862---Rebuffed, more than a bit.

NOVEMBER 2, 1862:          

It is the United States’ midterm Election Day, 1862, and the results are disappointing to Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, who have lost the governorships of New York and New Jersey, lost legislative majorities in New Jersey, Illinois, and Indiana, and lost a total of thirty-four congressional seats. 

Lincoln laments, "It is like the boy who stubbed his tow on the way to see his girl; he was too big to cry, and it hurt too much to laugh." 

The Democrats hail the results as "a great, sweeping revolution of public sentiment…a most serious and severe reproof" of the policies of the Republicans. 

However, the elections still leave the Republicans with control of seventeen of the nineteen governorships in the Union, a majority in sixteen of nineteen state legislatures, a net gain of five seats in the Senate, and a healthy twenty-five vote majority in the House of Representatives.