The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-11-03

House.
The Presidential Election-The Probable Re-
sult-The Prospect Under General Grant.
This is the great day Of our Presidential
| election. The territorial area Of the United
| States is three million four hundred thousand
square miles, including thirty-seven States,
the District Of Columbia and the Territories of
Dacotah, Wyoming, Montana, Washington,
Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and
Arizona, the Indian colonies west of Arkan-
sas, and last, though not least the imperial
Territory Of Alaska, covering four hundred
thousand square miles on the mainland and q
chain of islands extending pretty well across
the Northern Pacific Ocean. The Territories
and the District Of Columbia are excluded
from our national elections, and on this oc-
casion, under law Of Congress, the unrecon-
structed States of Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas will also be excluded. Thus some three
millions Of the people Of the nation, to say
nothing of the Indians and the Esquimaux,
will be excluded from this days election. 1t
will be limited to thirty-four States, and some
senting about thirty-two millions Of people.
The people Of each State elect ticket Of
Presidential Electors, equal in number to the
States representation in both houses of Con-
gress, and . majority of these electors
elects the President and Vice President. The
whole number of Presidential Electors this
time viii be two hundred and ninety-six, Of
which one hundred and forty-nine will be ne
cessary for choice. We think that Grant
and Colfax may be set down in advance for
the electoral vote of all the Northern
States except Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey and Oregon, which, with
West Virginia, will give them one hun
dred and sixty-nine votes, counting all the
rest against them. But they have at least an
equal chance for Connecticut and New York
and good show for New Jersey, while in the
South they are sure Of Tennessee, South Caro-
lima and Florida, and may carry North Caro-
lima, Alabama and Louisiana. But while
Grant and Colfax will thus, In our opinion,
obtain large majority of the electoral vote
they will not have corresponding majority o
the popular vote. Under our electoral system,
In fact, since the time Of Monroe, we have hal
good share of popular minority Presidents
John Quincy Adams was minority President
and so were Polk and General Taylor. Pierce
got the electoral votes Of all the States except
four-vermont and Massachusetts,, North, and
Kentucky and Tennessee, Southland yet sixty
thousand added to the opposition vote Of the
Union would have made Pierce Q minority
President. Buchanan by three hundred and
seventy -seven thousand was Q minority
President, and Lincoln In his first election
was nearly million short on the popular
vote; but then pro-slavery terrorism entirely
excluded the Lincoln ticket from all the South
ern States except Delaware and county OF
two in Maryland and Kentucky.
In this election we have the new element OF
the Southern negro vote introduced as radi-
cal balance Of power; but it il quite likely,
from all we hear, that this very balance Of
power will give two, three or four of the re-
constructed States to Seymour and Blair
Serious approximations, however, are enter
tanned In those States of violent collisions and
bloody scenes at the polls day between the
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