Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — The Electoral College of. [ARTICLE]

The Electoral College of.

The Free States will be entitled to votes in the electoral college as follows: Maine, 8 Michigan 6 N r ..w Hampshire, 5 Indiana, 13 Vermont, 5 Illinois, 11 Massachusetts, 13 lowa, 4 Rhode Island, 4 Wisconsin, 5 Connecticut, 6 California, 4 New York, 35 Minnesota, 4 Pennsylvania, 27 Kansas, 3 New Jersey, 7 Oregon, 3 Ohio, 23 -t Total. 186 The Slave States will be entitled to votes in the electoral college as follows: Virginia, 15 Louisiana, 6 Delaware, 3 Arkansas, 4 Maryland, 8 Tennessee, 12 North Carolina, 19 Kentucky, 12 South Carolina, 8 Missouri, 9 Georgia, 10 Florida, 3 Alabama, 9 Texas. 4 Mississippi, 9 Total, 120 Total vote of Free States, 186 Total vote of Slave States, 120 Majority for Free States, 66 Aggregate vote, Free and Slave States, 306 Maj’y necessary to elect a President, 154 Of all the Free States, all but Indiana, California and Oregon are under Republican rule. Take their 20 votes from the Free Slate aggregate and we still have 166 left. Deduct, if you please, Illinois, and there arc still 155 available electoral votes (a majority of the whole number) fora Republican President in 1860. l|ut we hope to add both Illinois and 1 ndiana to the Republican musterroll next year. {Fj* Who were the first astrologers? The stars, because they first studded the heavens.