Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1925-02-06 | Page 3 | Presidential Victory Came as Birthday Gift

Presidential Victory Came as Birthday Gift Almost in the nalure of a hiitlela.v gift came the news to Abraham Lin coin that he had been elected President Presi-dent of the United States. The eiec-toral eiec-toral college met and voted and on Eebi nary S congress assembled in joint convention. At this convention the vice prcsi- j dent announced he had '.he returns from :he stales of Tennessee and j Louisiana, lint in obedience to the ex- I isting laws, he held it to be his duty ! not to present them to the conveu- I lion. Only the rvnirns from the loyal stales. Including West Virginia, were counted. The result showed 212 electoral elec-toral votes for Lincoln and 21 for Meridian. Me-ridian. I on ihp pi-y , 1 : i y of the President's j birthday, announcement came to Wash- ingtoii that the cotton ships Sherman j had sent from Savannah had pu: into : New York and Newport. It. I. The dispatches were featured in the newspapers news-papers annoiim iug the arrival of the J vessels and common! ing with facr ' on the prospects of getting cargoes of ! eo:toii from the newly (.pencil ports of ! Ihe Sou:h. If there were any tboucios of deail on his mind on his last birthday, how j ever, it is more than likely that thev were due to a consciem ionsness of i having labored under too terrilie a strain for any man to survive, espc- . dally wi: h four years neTe of vexa tious problems und unceasing laboi ahead.