The following scrap of history may perhaps explain to your correspondent ,Armouck" how it happened that New-York State cast no vote at the first Presidential election: The majority of the ...

In the time leading up to the 1868 presidential election, the Klan's activities picked up in speed and brutality. The election, which pitted Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio ...

To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a popular election came in 1876. The overall conclusion is that the Southern ...