Of the popular vote, Lincoln received 1,866,452; Douglas, 1,291,547; Breckinridge, 850,082; Bell, 646,124.

Mr.Lincoln's vote was wholly from the free States, except some 26,000 cast for him in the five border slave States.

In the other slave States his name was not presented as a candidate.

Mr.Douglas received in the South about 163,000 votes.

In the North the votes cast distinctively for the Breckinridge electoral ticket were less than 100,000, and distinctively for the Bell electoral ticket about 80,000.
It was thus manifest that the two Northern Presidential candidates, Lincoln and Douglas, had absorbed almost the entire vote in the free States, and the two Southern Presidential candidates, Breckinridge and Bell, had absorbed almost the entire vote in the slave States.
The Northern candidate received popular support in the South in about the same degree that the Southern candidate received popular support in the North.