Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-23
Rep. maj.
Rep. mai.
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In illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan
and Missouri, there were no Governor elec-
ton in 1867, but the local elections in each
State showed very large gains for the DEM
ocratic party. They certainly indicated
larger gains than the average of other
States. 1t will be seen that the Democracy
has made large gains in every State of the
North The majority for President Lin
coin in 1864, was 4ll,281. Upon this, in
the States enumerated in the above table,
the Democracy has gained 358, 1872, and the
change in the other States Is more than suf-
fcient to wipe out the entire Republican
majority at the last Presidential election.
The Democratic party to-day has decided
majority of the votes in the Northern States.
II has also the support of all the bona fde
voters of the Southern States. ID. a.
In the States above enumerated which
we're Democratic at the last election, the
number of electoral votes is 10l. In all
the other Northern States which voted at
the last Presidential election, the number
of electoral votes is 1873. Take from this
number the vote of Ohio, which last year
elected a Democratic Legislature and made
a gain of over $4,000 votes, bringing the
majority of the Republican candidate for
Governor down to little over 1000, twenty
one electoral votes, and adding it to the
Democratic electors, will give in all the
States that voted at the last Presidential
election:
Democratic electors, 122.
Republican electors, liz. ...
In addition to the above, the Democracy
are almost certain to carry Illinois, In
diana, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada and
Wisconsin with an aggregate electoral vote
of tifty-6ve which will give ...
Democratic electors ia.
Republican electors 81.
The only States of the North which the
Republican party can rely upon with any
certainty in the coming Presidential cleo
ton, are Massachusetts,, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Maine, Iowa and Michigan, with
an aggregate electoral vote of AZ.
We have said nothing of the electoral
votes of the Southern States because we be-
lieve that not only there will be asuficient
maiorily in the Northern States to over
Whelm them, but that the Democracy will
be able to carry nearly if not quite one-halt
Ofthose States under all present disabilities
But suppose that the Republicans,
through illegal negro votes, nOn1inaliy
carry all the Southern States, and the De
mocracy carry a majority OF the Northern
States, bat sufficient to cOunterbalance the
minority at the North and the carpet-bag
gers and negroes of the South, will the
North, represented by Governors and Lee
gislatures of the largest States of the
Union, submit to plainly unconstitutional
proceedings on the part of the general gov
eminent? Will it not demand and obtain
a decision of the Supreme Court upon the
constitutionality of the reconstruction
measures so-called, and if declared uncon-
stitutional by that tribunal, will it not per-
form its high duty in defending and main
taining the Constitution against usurpa-
tion2 But it never will come to this. The
moral influence of the expressed will Of
the people will be omnipotent, and no man
lives with sufficient audacity to claim the
Presidential chair against the expressed
will of the North and the unanimous will
Of the Constitutional voters of the South.