y,
Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas, or sixty-six electoral votes
to two hundred and seventy-two for Grant, whose popular majority
exceeded three-quarters of a million. Dix carried New York by 55,451
majority.[1414] Of thirty-two congressmen the Republicans elected
twenty-three, with a legislative majority of seventy on joint ballot.
To the surprise of Tammany, Havermeyer was elected mayor by over 8,000
plurality, although Greeley carried the city by 23,000 majority.[1415]
A comparison of the vote with that cast for Seymour in 1868 showed
that a marked percentage of Democrats refused to support Greeley, and
that a larger percentage did not vote at all.[1416] Other slights
added to his disappointment. "I was an Abolitionist for years," he
said, "when to be one was as much as one's life was worth even here in
New York, and the negroes have all voted against me. Whatever of
talents and energy I have possessed, I have freely contributed all my
life long to Protection; to the cause of our manufactures. And the
manufacturers have expended millions to defeat me. I even made myself
ridiculous in the opinion of many whose good wishes I desired, by
showing fair play and giving a fair field in the _Tribune_ to Woman's
Rights; and the women have all gone against me."[1417]

[Footnote 1413: After the North Carolina election would-be Liberals
rejoined the Republican party in great numbers.]

[Footnote 1414: Grant, 440,759; Greeley, 387,279; majority, 53,480.
Dix, 447,801; Kernan, 392,350; majority, 55,451. Robinson, 442,297;
Depew, 397,754; majority, 44,543. Tremaine, 438,456; Cox, 400,697;
majority, 37,759.]

[Footnote 1415: Havermeyer, 53,806; Lawrence, 45,398; O'Brien, 31,121.]

[Footnote 1416: Seymour (1868), 429,883. Greeley (1872), 387,279.
Kernan (1872), 392,350. Cox (1872), 400,697.]

[Footnote 1417: George W. Julian, _Political Recollections_, p. 348.]

Before the vote of the State was officially canvassed Greeley had gone
to his rest.[1418] The campaign had overtaxed his strength, and upon
his return from the western speaking tour he watched at the bedside of
his wife until her decease on October 30. After the election he
resumed editorial charge of the _Tribune_, which he formally
relinquished on the 15th of the preceding May, but it was plain that
the robust animal spirits which characterised his former days were
gone.[1419] The loss of his wife, the mortification of defeat, the
financial embarrassment of h