What would Lincoln say about the present day elections for President for 2016?

[Linda Anderson]

The Jackson vs. Adams fight was acrimonious.

"Andrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual degree by negative personal attacks. Jackson and his wife were accused of adultery on the basis that Rachel had not been legally divorced from her first husband when she married Jackson. Shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel died at the Hermitage; Jackson apparently believed the negative attacks had hastened her death."

http://www.history.com/topics/us-preside...ew-jackson

Knowing how difficult the campaign would be on his wife, perhaps it would have been better if Jackson has not run for the presidency in 1828 just like it would have been better if Seward had left Washington after Powell's attack so that his daughter Fanny could have gotten away from the horrible memories in the Old Clubhouse which probably hastened her death at age 21 the following year.