The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-12 00:00:00

6
... 3-23

Total
FOR SEYMOUR AND I3LAIR.
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
None.
MIDDLE STATES.
New York 33 New Jer,;ey... ...
Delaware 3 Maryland 7
West Virginia 5
WESTERN STATES.
.1

~ 201

Kentucky ..• ••• -• ••• ••• II
ractFic STATES.
••
Oregon... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 3
"RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES.
Georgia ... 9 Louisiana ... ... 7
Alabama ... ... 8 —24

Total ...
UNRECONSTRUCTED, AND THEREFORE NOT COUNTED."

SOUTHERN STATES.
Virginia ... 10 Mississippi 7
Texas... ... 6 —23
The contradiction as telegraphed from Philadelphia
is in one State counting 5 votes, as according to
oar table, compiled from the telegraphic details,
twenty-four States only casting a total of 201 votes
went for GRANT against ten for SEYMOUR—casting
a total of 93—transfer West Virginia to GRANT and
the whole agrees. It is, too, scarcely credible that
West Virginia should have swung round to the
Democratic side, when by the last mails the result
of the election on the 22d October, not a fortnight
before, showed a Republican majority of four thou-
sand for the State ticket, the return of the three
Republican candidates to the House of Represen-
tatives, and the assurance of a Republican suc-
cessor to Senator VAN WINKLE on the 4th March
next. We have always said that General GRANT
would run ahead of the State tickets, and the
truth of this will be seen on examining the majo-
rities. Vermont gave on the Ist September a Re-
publican majority of 27,000. For the Presiden-
tial Election last Tuesday the majority was 30,000.
Maine, on the 14th September, gave a Repub-
lican majority in round numbers of 20,000 ;
last Tuesday, 28,000. Pennsylvania, on the
13th of October, 10,000; last Tuesday, 13,000.
Ohio, on the 13th Oct., 17,000; last Tuesday,
35,000. Indiana, on the 13th Oct., 1,000; last
Tuesday, 5,000—all showing gains ; and it would
be strange, indeed, if West Virginia in exception
to a well-ascertained fact in American elections
should have swung right round in a fortnight from
aof 4,000 to a Democratic
majority There are some points worth
Republican
of 7
,o majorityoo.
noting in the returns. All the New England
States, even to Connecticut, went Republican, the
last by a majority of 3,000. We may here notice
that the telegraphic despatch announcing the elec-
tions puts Connecticut down as counting for three
electoral votes, while at this moment three Democrats
and one Republican member sit in the Federal
House for that State, with one Democrat and one
Republican in the Senate, making a total of 6; and
we may add that on the State Legislature depends
the election of a successor to the Democratic
Senator whose term will be up next March. The
next point observable is that SEYMOUR'S strength
lay almost wholly in the Middle States, all of which
he carried except the two great ones of Ohio
and Pennsylvania. The Western States, except-
ing Kentucky, cast a vote as solid for GRANT
as did the New England States. The Pacific
States were thought to be Democratic, and Cali-
fornia was conceded to SEYMOUR, although, could
the Republicans reconcile their differences and act
together, it was thought they might carry the
State, and this they appear to have done. But
what is most instructive is the result down South.
The two States always calculated upon by the Re-
publicans were Alabama and Louisiana. The for-
mer was a pet Republican Reconstructed State. It
had caused more trouble than any other, and it ac-
tually betrayed Congress into something like an in-
fringement of its own law. It had led the way in
Reconstruction, and set au example by adopting a
" model" Constitution. Yet Alabama, with its
eight votes, is found in the Democratic ranks. But
what shall we say of Louisiana with its seven
votes? Georgia was expected to go Democratic ;
but if there was a State which might reason-
ably have been counted among the supporters
of the Republican ticket, it was Louisiana.
There the negroes predominated in number and
in the Legislature, and there riot and bloodshed
prevailed in the contest between the races so as to
make that State conspicuous, even in the South.
The Louisiana vote can only be accounted for by
the Radical prediction, that the negroes would be
frightened away from the polls by armed violence.
If so, the Southerners will learn another lesson, that
all this ruffianism is worse than worthless to further
their cause, for for every negro shot or frightened
away fifty Northern meu transfer their votes from
the Democratic to the Republican box. It would
not be expected that the Reconstructed States could
complete their elections without some personskilled;
but, strange to say, Savannah was the onlyscene of a
fight between the races. It is stated that the negroes