1864

Supported Lincoln for re-election.

1866

Was active in procuring the franchise for the freedmen.

_September._ Elected delegate from Rochester to National Loyalists'
Convention at Philadelphia.

1869 [1870]

Moved to Washington, District of Columbia. Established [Edited and
then bought] the _New National Era_.

1870

Appointed secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission by President
Grant.

1872

Appointed councillor of the District of Columbia. [Moved family there
after a fire (probably arson) destroyed their Rochester home and
Douglass's newspaper files.] Elected presidential elector of the State
of New York, and chosen by the electoral college to take the vote to
Washington.