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ular vote of 1,857,610 for Lincoln; 1,291,574 for Douglas; 850,022 for Breckenridge; and 646,124 for Bell.
In the electoral college Lincoln received 180 votes, Breckenridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas 12.
Lincoln electors were chosen in seventeen of the free States, as follows: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Oregon; and in one State,--New Jersey,--owing to a fusion between Democrats, Lincoln secured four and Douglas three of the electors.
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Texas went for Breckenridge; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia for Bell; while Douglas secured only one entire State--Missouri. Mr. Lincoln having now been elected, there remained, before taking up the reins of government, the details of his departure from Springfield, and the selection of a cabinet.
part of the State, but it was so commonplace, and met with such indifferent success, that he soon dropped it altogether.
As we were going to Danville court I read to Lincoln a lecture by Bancroft on the wonderful progress of man, delivered in the preceding November.
Sometime later he told us-Swett and me — that he had been thinking much on the subject and believed he would write a lecture on Man and His Progress.
Afterwards I re a~d in a paper that he had come to either Bloomington or Clinton to lecture and no one turned out. The paper added, That doesn't look much like his being President.
I once joked him about it;, e s? id good-naturedly Don't; that plagues me.
--Henry a. Whitney letter, Aug. 27, 1867. The effort met with the disapproval of his friends, and he himself was filled with disgust.
If his address in 1852, over the death of Clay, proved that he was no eulogist, then this last effort demonstrated that he was no lecturer.
Invitations to deliver the lecture — prom
ut honor, save in his own country.
In December he visited Kansas, speaking at Atchison, Troy, Leavenworth, and other towns est with Douglas, yet they were new to the majority of his Kansas
How Mr. Lincoln stood on the questions of the hour, aft a letter written on the 14th of May, 1859, to a friend in Kansas, who had forwarded him an invitation to attend a RepublicaA letter written by Lincoln about this time to a friend in Kansas serves to illustrate his methods, and measures the extent f the problem.
In the middle of April he again writes his Kansas friend: Reaching home last night I found yours of the 7th.s course in the contest with Douglas.
Lincoln's friend in Kansas, instead of securing that delegation for him, had sufferedes Lincoln, in a burst of surprise, that, since you wrote, Kansas has appointed delegates and instructed for Seward.
Don't March 13, 1861. —, Esq. My Dear Sir:
You will start for Kansas before I see you again; and when I saw you a moment this m
lar vote of 1,857,610 for Lincoln; 1,291,574 for Douglas; 850,022 for Breckenridge; and 646,124 for Bell.
In the electoral college Lincoln received 180 votes, Breckenridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas 12.
Lincoln electors were chosen in seventeen of the free States, as follows: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Oregon; and in one State,--New Jersey,--owing to a fusion between Democrats, Lincoln secured four and Douglas three of the electors.
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Texas went for Breckenridge; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia for Bell; while Douglas secured only one entire State--Missouri. Mr. Lincoln having now been elected, there remained, before taking up the reins of government, the details of his departure from Springfield, and the selection of a cabinet.
he 6th of November.
The result showed a popular vote of 1,857,610 for Lincoln; 1,291,574 for Douglas; 850,022 for Breckenridge; and 646,124 for Bell.
In the electoral college Lincoln received 180 votes, Breckenridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas 12.
Lincoln electors were chosen in seventeen of the free States, as follows: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Oregon; and in one State,--New Jersey,--owing to a fusion between Democrats, Lincoln secured four and Douglas three of the electors.
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Texas went for Breckenridge; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia for Bell; while Douglas secured only one entire State--Missouri. Mr. Lincoln having now been elected, there remained, before taking up the reins of government, the details of his departure from S
