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XXII.
Secession.
- Legislature called
-- Gov. Gist's Message
-- Senator Chesnut's speech
-- Boyce
-- Moses
-- Trenholm
-- McGowan
-- Mullins
-- Ruffin
-- Judge Magrath resigns
-- military Convention in Georgia
-- votes to secede
-- facilities to Disunion
-- Houston
-- Letcher
-- Magofiln
-- Conway
-- C. F. Jackson
-- Alex. H. Stephens
-- S. C. Convention
-- Ordinance of Secession immediately and unanimously passed
-- Georgia follows — so do Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
-- Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, refuse to do likewise
-- the Secessionista a minority in the Slave States.
the choice of Presidential Electors, which formerly took place at the discretion of the several States within a limited range, is now required, by act of Congress, to be made on the same day throughout — namely, on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November.
This fell, in 1860, on the 6th of the month; and it was known, before that day had fully expired, that
Abraham Lincoln had been clearly designated by the People for their next president, through the choice by his supporters of a majority of the whole number of Electors.
Every Free State but
New Jersey had chosen the entire Lincoln Electoral ticket; and in
New Jersey the refusal of part of the Douglas men to support the “Fusion” ticket (composed of three
Douglas, two
Bell, and two
Breckinridge men), had allowed four of the
Lincoln Electors to slip in over the two
Bell and the two Breckinridge Electors on the regular Democratic ticket.
The three Lincoln Electors who had to confront the full vote of the coalesced anti-Republican parties were defeated by about 4,500 majority.
And, although this was not ascertained that night, nor yet the fact that
California and
Oregon had gone with the other free States, yet there were 169 Lincoln Electors chosen (out of 303) outside of these three States;
with, these,
Mr. Lincoln had 180, to 123 for all others.
Of these,
Breckinridge had 72;
Bell 39 (from
Virginia,
Kentucky, and
Tennessee); and
Douglas barely 12--those of
Missouri (9) and 3, as aforesaid, from
New Jersey.
But, though nowhere in the Electoral,
Mr. Douglas was second in the Popular, vote, as will be seen by the following table, wherein the “Fusion” vote is divided between the parties which contributed to it, according to the best estimate that can now be made of their strength respectively:
Free states.
| States. | Lincoln. | Douglas. | Breckinridge. | Bell. |
| Maine | 62,811 | 26,693 | 6,368 | 2,046 |
| New Hampshire | 37,519 | 25,881 | 2,112 | 441 |
| Massachusetts | 106,353 | 34,372 | 5,939 | 22,331 |
| Rhode Island | 12,244 | 14,000 | 21,000 | 2,707 |
| Connecticut | 43,972 | 15,522 | 14,641 | 3,291 |
| Vermont | 33,808 | 6,849 | 218 | 1,969 |
| New York | 353,804 | 3203,329 | 450,000 | 550,000 |
| New Jersey | 58,324 | 630,000 | 730,000 | 82,801 |
| Pennsylvania | 268,030 | 978,871 | 10100,000 | 12,776 |
| Ohio | 231,610 | 187,232 | 11,405 | 12,194 |
| Indiana | 139,033 | 115,509 | 12,295 | 5,306 |
| Illinois | 172,161 | 160,215 | 2,404 | 4,913 |
| Michigan | 88,480 | 65,057 | 805 | 405 |
| Wisconsin | 86,110 | 65,021 | 888 | 161 |
| Minnesota | 22,069 | 11,920 | 748 | 62 |
| Iowa | 70,409 | 55,111 | 1,048 | 1,748 |
| California | 39,173 | 38,516 | 34,334 | 6,817 |
| Oregon | 5,270 | 3,951 | 5,006 | 183 |
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| Total Free States | 1,831,180 | 1,128,049 | 279,211 | 130,151 |
