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mid-October: "We are all exchanging . . . confident predictions
of being nowhere next N o v e m b e r . B u c h a n a n
carried nineteen of thirty-one states, Fremont eleven, and
Fillmore one, while the victor received 174 electoral votes
to Fremont’s 114, and Fillmore’s 8 . 70 The New Orleans
Picayune trumpeted that the "Black Republicans" were
dead. 71 But Greeley saw the result as only a lost battle
of a long war: "The Bunker Hill of the new struggle for
Freedom is past; the Saratoga and Yorktown are yet to be
achieved." The Tribune editor was heartened by the fact
that the Republicans "without organization, without official
office, without prestige" had won numerous offices.
To many the chief reason for Republican defeat was the
number of votes drawn by the ephemeral Know-Nothings, 73 but
others blamed the indulgence in availability 7 A* and the
^^Allan Nevins and Milton Thomas (eds.), The Diary of George Templeton Strong (New York, 1952), vol. II, p. 303.
^^Nevins, Fremont. p. 455.
^^New Orleans Daily Picayune. November 13, 1856.
72^ew York Tribune. November 5, 1856.
^^National Era. November 13, 1856.
^^John Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House. Senate and Cabinet (New York, T596), p. 107; Thomas
Miller to Seward, December 28, 1856; R. P. Toms to Seward,
November 5, 1856; both in Seward Papers.
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| Full text | 231 mid-October: "We are all exchanging . . . confident predictions of being nowhere next N o v e m b e r . B u c h a n a n carried nineteen of thirty-one states, Fremont eleven, and Fillmore one, while the victor received 174 electoral votes to Fremont’s 114, and Fillmore’s 8 . 70 The New Orleans Picayune trumpeted that the "Black Republicans" were dead. 71 But Greeley saw the result as only a lost battle of a long war: "The Bunker Hill of the new struggle for Freedom is past; the Saratoga and Yorktown are yet to be achieved." The Tribune editor was heartened by the fact that the Republicans "without organization, without official office, without prestige" had won numerous offices. To many the chief reason for Republican defeat was the number of votes drawn by the ephemeral Know-Nothings, 73 but others blamed the indulgence in availability 7 A* and the ^^Allan Nevins and Milton Thomas (eds.), The Diary of George Templeton Strong (New York, 1952), vol. II, p. 303. ^^Nevins, Fremont. p. 455. ^^New Orleans Daily Picayune. November 13, 1856. 72^ew York Tribune. November 5, 1856. ^^National Era. November 13, 1856. ^^John Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House. Senate and Cabinet (New York, T596), p. 107; Thomas Miller to Seward, December 28, 1856; R. P. Toms to Seward, November 5, 1856; both in Seward Papers. |
