[95] Lamon, 422.
[96] The majority report was supported by 15 slave
States and 2 free States, casting 127 electoral votes;
the minority report was supported by 15 free States,
casting 176 electoral votes. N. and H. ii. 234.
[97] This action was soon afterward approved in a
manifesto signed by Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Iverson,
Slidell, Benjamin, Mason, and others. Ibid.
245.
[98] Greeley’s Amer. Conflict, i.
326.
[99] Ibid. i. 306, 307.
[100] Mr. Blaine says that Lincoln “was chosen
in spite of expressions far more radical than those
of Mr. Seward.” Twenty Years of Congress,
i. 169.
[101] “In strong common sense, in sagacity and
sound judgment, in rugged integrity of character,
Mr. Hamlin has had no superior among public men.”
Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, i. 170.
[102] Lamon, 453.
[103] McClure adds, or rather mentions as the chief
cause, Seward’s position on the public-school
question in New York. Lincoln and Men of War-Times,
28, 29.
[104] “To the country at large he was an obscure,
not to say an unknown man.” Life of W.L.
Garrison, by his children, iii. 503.
[105] Life of W.L. Garrison, by his children,
iii. 503.
[106] See remarks of McClure, Lincoln and Men of
War-Times, 28, 29.
[107] See N. and H. ii. 284 n.
[108] See letter of May 17, 1859, to Dr. Canisius,
Holland, 196; N. and H. ii. 181.
[109] Life of W.L. Garrison, by his children,
iii. 502.
[110] This table is taken from Stanwood’s History
of Presidential Elections.
[111] N. and H. iii. 146.
[112] The total popular vote was 4,680,193. Lincoln
had 1,866,452. In North Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
and Tennessee, no vote was cast for the Lincoln ticket;
in Virginia only 1929 voted it. Adding the total
popular vote of all these States (except the 1929),
we get 854,775; deducting this from the total popular
vote leaves a balance of 3,825,418, of which one half
is 1,912,709; so that even outside of the States of
the Confederacy Lincoln did not get one half of the
popular vote. South Carolina is not included
in any calculation concerning the popular vote, because
she chose electors by her legislature.
[113] Letter of Henry A. Wise of Virginia, May 28,
1858, quoted N. and H. ii. 302 n.
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