Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-21
SLAVE STATES.

1t will be seen that the whole number
of electors is 303, and consequently 152
will be a majority of the whole, and
necessary to elect President. 1t will
be seen, too, that the Free States, class
ing California with the South, casts 1T9
of these votes, while the South, in
Guiding California, casts but 124. The
Free States, therefore, have clear ma
jority of 27.
Now we think that every one of these
Free States is morally certain to vote for
Lincoln. Look over the list and see
which one of them, or how many of them,
can nationally be classed as doubtful?
No candid man will pretend that either
Douglas, Breckenridge, Bell, Houston
or Gerrit Smith, has any clear probabi1-
ity of success in one of them. All that
will be claimed by any candid person is,
that some of them may be doubtful
Well, let us figure out results. Do you
say Pennsylvania is a doubtful State?
We cannot agree with you in your opin
ion, for we think her vote as certain for
Lincoln as that Of New York or Ohio.
But suppose you call Pennsylvania
doubtful, and give her vote to either of
the factions opposed to the Republicans,
or combine them all, and defeat Lincoln
in that State? Do you thereby defeat
Lincoln? Not at all. Look at the fig
ures, and you will see that Lincoln can
loose Pennsylvania and still be elected.
He has precisely the requisite 152 votes
without her But no State in the Union
is surer for the Republican candidate
than Pennsylvania.
Do you give that up, and say that H.
linois, Indiana and Oregon are doubtful,
and may be carried against Lincoln by
combination of the other parties?s We
do not believe that either of them, can,
by any possible coalition, be carried
against him. But suppose they are. all
made to vote against him. He is not
thereby defeated. Look at the list
again. Lincoln has cracty the requisite
152 votes without these States, OF either
of them
Do You try it again, and say that
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, New Jersey, and Iowa, are
doubtful States and may be carried
against the Republicans? We can hardly
think any one candid who would make
such claim. Butsuppose it true, and
that the whole five States last named
should vote against Lincoln. He is not
still defeated. Look at the list again.
He will still have the requisite 152votes,
and one to spare.
But does some desperate caveler still
claim that Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota are doubtful States, and
may be induced to vote against us?
Very good. Let them all go and Ore
gon with them But Lincoln is not
beaten. Refer again to the figures. He
will still haye the requisite 152 votes
and one to spare. -
Cut this table out of the paper, and
paste it in your hats, every Republican.
It will do you good service. Let it
strengthen your faith in the success of
your cause. 1t will furnish you that
definite data that will give you conf
dence in your calculations of results
The figures themselves are correct, and
the calculations founded on them, relia-
BILE. We do not see how the election of
Lincoln and Hamlin is to be defeated
by any combination of parties and fac
tions that is among the possible events
OF the future. r --. VI. -..a