PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1836.
Mr. Van Buren was the candidate of the democratic party; General
Harrison the candidate of the opposition; and Mr. Hugh L. White
that of a fragment of the democracy. Mr. Van Buren was elected,
receiving one hundred and seventy electoral votes, to seventy-three
given to General Harrison, and twenty-six given to Mr. White. The
States voting for each, were:--Mr. Van Buren: Maine, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri,
Michigan, Arkansas. For General Harrison: Vermont, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana. For Mr. White:
Georgia and Tennessee. Massachusetts complimented Mr. Webster
by bestowing her fourteen votes upon him; and South Carolina,
as in the two preceding elections, threw her vote away upon a
citizen not a candidate, and not a child of her soil--Mr. Mangum
of North Carolina--disappointing the expectations of Mr. White's
friends, whose standing for the presidency had been instigated by
Mr. Calhoun, to divide the democratic party and defeat Mr. Van
Buren. Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, was the democratic
candidate for the vice-presidency, and received one hundred and
forty-seven votes, which, not being a majority of the whole number
of votes given, the election was referred to the Senate, to choose
between the two highest on the list; and that body being largely
democratic, he was duly elected: receiving thirty-three out of
forty-nine senatorial votes. The rest of the vice-presidential vote,
in the electoral colleges, had been between Mr. Francis Granger,
of New York, who received seventy-seven votes; Mr. John Tyler, of
Virginia, who received forty-seven; and Mr. William Smith, of South
Carolina, complimented by Virginia with her twenty-three votes.
Mr. Granger, being the next highest on the list, after Colonel
Johnson, was voted for as one of the two referred to the Senate;
and received sixteen votes. A list of the senators voting for each
will show the strength of the respective parties in the Senate, at
the approaching end of President Jackson's administration; and how
signally all the efforts intended to overthrow him had ended in the
discomfiture of their authors, and converted an absolute majority
of the whole Senate into a meagre minority of one third. The votes
for Colonel Johnson were: Mr. Benton of Missouri; Mr. Black of
Mississippi; Mr. Bedford Brown of North Carolina; Mr. Buchanan
of Pennsylvania; Mr. Cuthbert of Georgia; Mr. Dana of Maine; Mr.
Ewing of Illinois; Mr. Fulton of Arkansas; Mr. Grundy of Tennessee;
Mr. Hendricks of Indiana; Mr. Hubbard of Maine; Mr. William Rufus
King of Alabama; Mr. John P. King of Georgia; Mr. Louis F. Linn of
Missouri; Mr. Lucius Lyon of Michigan Mr. McKean of Pennsylvania;
Mr. Gabriel Moore of Alabama; Mr. Morris of Ohio; Mr. Alexander
Mouton of Louisiana; Mr. Wilson C. Nicholas of Louisiana; Mr.
Niles of Connecticut; Mr. John Norvell of Michigan; Mr. John Page
of New Hampshire; Mr. Richard E. Parker of Virginia; Mr. Rives of
Virginia; Mr. John M. Robinson of Illinois; Mr. Ruggles of Maine;
Mr. Ambrose H. Sevier of Arkansas; Mr. Peleg Sprague of Maine; Mr.
Robert Strange of North Carolina; Mr. Nathaniel P. Talmadge of New
York; Mr. Tipton of Indiana; Mr. Robert J. Walker of Mississippi;
Mr. Silas Wright of New York. Those voting for Mr. Francis Granger
were: Mr. Richard H. Bayard of Delaware; Mr. Clay; Mr. John M.
Clayton of Delaware; Mr. John Crittenden of Kentucky; Mr. John Davis
of Massachusetts; Mr. Thomas Ewing of Ohio; Mr. Kent of Maryland;
Mr. Nehemiah Knight of Rhode Island; Mr. Prentiss of Vermont; Mr.
Asher Robbins of Rhode Island; Mr. Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey;
Mr. John S. Spence of Maryland; Mr. Swift of Vermont; Mr. Gideon
Tomlinson of Connecticut; Mr. Wall of New Jersey; Mr. Webster. South
Carolina did not vote, neither in the person of Mr. Calhoun nor in
that of his colleague, Mr. Preston: an omission which could not be
attributed to absence or accident, as both were present; nor fail
to be remarked and considered ominous in the then temper of the
State, and her refusal to vote in the three preceding presidential
elections.