The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGISSI.! 12, 1868.

regards THAD. rEVENS, personally, it is a small
matter whether • he shows the truth of the bitter
description giv-a a of him by his enemies, though
all must regret tile degradation it entails on
the House of Representatives. The withering
scorn ISAIAH fe It when he described the gods
d to worship as wood, a por-
his people desirt

tion of which they set up as a deity, the other por-
tion being burnt for warmth, must be in the
hearts of many of the Rel)resentatives who had set
up THAD. STEVENS. as a di ity in their Home. While
ISAIAH contemptuo n.gyo si lowed what benefit could
be extracted from tiresps wooden images, the Ame-
rican god shows that lkO good can be extracted from
him. If IsAimi had d asi fired to terrify the children
of Israel he would ha cri, shown that they had set
a devil up, and this is vin fear what the House has
done. TIIAD. STEVEN:; .has been the CAUSC of much
harm in the Republican, Tanki. If he goes over to
the Democrats he will -work an equal amount of

mischief with them, al ,(-7. if they refu -e to have
him he should be z e.:noved from the political
arena. Parties talk of a a imaginary " whipper-in ;"
but. what they most r :quire is a physical whipper-
out. The cow-hide of ..the Tribune is all very well,
but a real material par ty Ltsh is wanted, which
stock-drivers know so swell how to use, and which
men who concern tliPtaiselves with the purity of

their parties should adept, when they can drive off
beasts stricken with plouro-pneumonia who desire
to herd with sound cat t]e.

THE PIZESID,E,INTIAL ELECTION.
No. I.

(From the An 9 10-American Times)

As this is the subject of the greatest interest to
Americans, and of importance to all civilised coun-
tries, we will follow its history as we did that of Im-
peachment, till we seat the successful candidate in
the Presidential chair: Those who file our paper
have therein full accounts of such interesting and
historical events as the trial of the President as they
transpired, and they will find we hope in the future
such particulars carefully recorded, with a view as
much to future reference as to present information.
The men who chooso!the President and Vice-Presi-
dent are elected on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in every lea?-year in November, and meet
on the following January in the capitals of their
different States, whence the votes for a President
and Vice-President are sent to Congress, which are
counted in February-, when those having the ma-
jority
•
of the whole number cast are to be sworn
into office on the 4th of March. Senators, Repre-
sentatives, or public functionaries of any kind, are
ineligible to vote in the Electoral College. This year
the day will be Nov. 3, the period being now less
than three months, when this momentous question
will be settled. In last week's issue we showed that
eleven small States, containing only half the popu-
lation of New York and Ohio, had nearly an equal
number of votes in the Electoral College, and the
reason is, that small States send two Senators to
Congress just as large ones do, so that the eleven
small States count 22 votes for the number repre-
senting their Senators, while the two big States
only count four. In the aggregate, therefore, the
States with small populations have an undue ad-
vantage over the States with large populations.
The Electoral College is composed as follows :

NEW ENGLAND STATES.

Total

Maine ... ...
Vermont ...
Rhode Island ...

• 7 New Hampshire ... 5
▪ 5 Massachusetts ... 12
... 4 Connecticut 6 39
MIDDLE STATES.
... 33 New Jersey ... 7
▪ 21 Pennsylvania ... 26
... 3 Maryland ... 7
... 5 —lO2

New York .
Ohio ~.
Delaware
West Virginia

Indiana
lowa ...
Kentucky ...
Missouri
Michigan ...
Minnesota ...

WESTERN STATES.
• 13 Illinois
▪ 8 Kansas ...
... 11 Tennessee
... 11 N obraska
... 8 Wisconsin

• 15
... 3
... 10
... 3
• 8

PACIFIC STATES.
... 5 Oregon ...

California

Nevada.. ... 3
These 27 States, constituting the "North,"
have, therefore, a total electoral vote of ,
" RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES.
North Carolina 9 South Carolina 6
Georgia 9 Florida ... ... 3
Alabama ... ... 8 Louisiana ... 7
Arkan'SaS 5
" UNRECONSTRUCTED " SOUTHERN STATES.
40 Mississippi

Virginia
Texas ...

Total number of the Electoral College

... 31.6

The London Times in a good article on the sub-
ject says :—lt is generally supposed that Grant and
Colfax will be successful at the approaching elec-
tion, and thus give a new triumph to the Republican
party. According to the elections as they have
heretofore been decided in the several American
States, if there has been no change that can add
any weight to the Democratic side, the Republi-
cans will choose the majority of the electoral votes.
Within the past year elections have been held in every
American State, and in the following statement will
be found the side that each will take and the num-
ber of its electoral votes, provided the next election
be decided the same way as the last one. The
North is separated from the South in this state-
ment

REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL VOTES.

NORTH.

Total.
Maine ... 7 New Hampshire ... 5
Vermont ... 5 Dlassachusetts ... 12
Rhode Island... 4 Ohio ... ... 21
West Virginia 5 Indiana ... 13
Illinois ... 15 lowa
Kansas ••• •• . 3 Tennessee 10
Missouri 11 Nebraska ... ... 3
Michigan ... ... 8 Wisconsin. ... 8
Minnesota ... 4_ Nevada 3 —145