An American history . ur history. The vehemence and bitter-ness of the feeling displayed could hardly be overstated. InNovember Lincoln carried every Northern and Western stateexcept New Jersey, whose electoral vote was divided, but notone Southern state. He received i8o electoral votes out of303; Breckenridge, 72 ; Bell, 39 ; Douglas, 12. The majorityof the popular vote, however, was against him. Though hereceived some 1,900,000 votes, the total of the votes for thethree other candidates was 2,800,000. THE CRISIS OF i860 403 572. The Southern Vote. The most significant detail ofthe election w
An American history . ur history. The vehemence and bitter-ness of the feeling displayed could hardly be overstated. InNovember Lincoln carried every Northern and Western stateexcept New Jersey, whose electoral vote was divided, but notone Southern state. He received i8o electoral votes out of303; Breckenridge, 72 ; Bell, 39 ; Douglas, 12. The majorityof the popular vote, however, was against him. Though hereceived some 1,900,000 votes, the total of the votes for thethree other candidates was 2,800,000. THE CRISIS OF i860 403 572. The Southern Vote. The most significant detail ofthe election was the vote in the South. Practically no voteswere cast for Lincoln. Though Breckenridge carried most ofthe Southern states, there was a large vote for each of theremaining candidates. This meant that Southerners werestill divided among themselves as to what they wanted, butwere almost a unit as to what they did not want. They didnot want a Republican President and they dreaded whatmight follow his accession to t \ For LincolnII Against Lincoln ELECTION OF i86o 573. Secession. Few, if any, other Southern states wereas bitter over the election as was South Carolina, that old-time stronghold of opposition to nationalism, which cherishedproudly the memory of its successful defiance of the centralgovernment in 1832. On the day following the election,South Carolina called a convention to consider withdrawingfrom the Union. The convention met at Columbia and ad-journed to Charleston. The events of 1832 were now repeatedon a larger scale. Military companies were formed ; federalbuildings were seized; federal ofiQcers, including the two 404 AMERICAN HISTORY CIARIK1«N MERCURY EXTRA: senators, resigned; commissioners were sent to other statesto confer upon secession. Finally, the convention by unan-imous vote, on December 20, i860, passed an Ordinance ofSecession, declaring!: that the union between South Carolina and the other states was herebydissolved. 574. The Final Issue. If
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