But it was not in the power of any man to change the current of public feeling.

The popular judgment had been fixed by events and by a long course of concurrent evidences, and no single plea or pledge could shake it.

The election resulted in the success of General Grant.

Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, in which Reconstruction was not yet completed, did not choose electors.
Of the remaining thirty-four States Mr.Seymour carried but eight.
General Grant's majority on the popular vote was 309,584.

Of the electors he had 214 and Mr.Seymour had 80..