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On this day Nov 06th 1861;

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS RECORDED

 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

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An Astounding Triumph of Republicanism.

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THE NORTH RISING IN INDIGNATION AT THE MENACES OF THE SOUTH

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Abraham Lincoln Probably Elected President by a Majority of the Entire Popular Vote

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Forty Thousand Majority for the Republican Ticket in New-York

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One Hundred Thousand Majority in Pennsylvania

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Seventy Thousand Majority in Massachusetts

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Corresponding Gains in the Western and North-Western States

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Preponderance of John Bell and Conservatism at the South

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Results of the Contest upon Congressional and Local Tickets

The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It elects ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois, President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th March next, directly by the People.

The election, so far as the City and State of New-York are concerned, will probably stand, hereafter as one of the most remarkable in the political contests of the country; marked, as it is, by far the heaviest popular vote ever cast in the City, and by the sweeping, and almost uniform, Republican majorities in the country.

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