| South. | |
| Delaware | 8,887 |
| Maryland | 103,036 |
| Virginia | 293,427 |
| North Carolina | 100,572 |
| South Carolina | 107,094 |
| Georgia | 29,264 |
| Kentucky | 11,830 |
| Tennessee | 3,417 |
| ——— | |
| 657,527 | |
| Total | 697,897. |
[8] Since this was written, this last and most serious danger would seem to have been removed by the acts of 1886 and 1887 regulating the presidential succession and the counting of electoral votes.
[9] The history of President Cleveland's tariff message of 1887, however, shows that, where a wise and courageous president calls attention to a living issue, his party, alike in Congress and in the country, is in a measure compelled to follow his lead.