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)b ALL EDITIONS 100 Years Ago: Lincoln's Victory Angers South THE ATLANTA CENTURY A Non-Partisan Account of the Presidential Election of 100 Yean Ago Written by Norman Shavin and Mike Edwards of The Atlanta JoufnalCanstirution (C 1960); Hiifdfkal Adviser, Dr. Willard Wight, fl ia Institute, of Technology WEDNMAY, NOVEMMTrTliM. Fateful Hour for the Nation. LINCOLN IN! First Republican President Elected; Disunion Looms. Mr.

Abraham Lincoln yesterday was elected the 16th Presidcnt-and first Republican chief executive-of the United States. i Gil This much is certain though all the votes from the 33 states have yet to be tallied in full. It also seems certain that he and his running mate, Sen. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, will not obtain a majority of the estimated 4,700,000 votes cast. history, will be inaugurated in Washington March 4.

By that time, some observers argue, some states will have seceded. The disunion movement is centered in Charleston, S.C., location of three of the nation's nine strategic coastal The bulk will likely be collected by forU (South Carolina governor has the three other presidential nominees, polled otncr southern gov- Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of the pro- crnors regarding any scccss on plans Northern wing of Democrats; hgve eslerday Pres. John C.

Breckinndse of the hgve; yeslerday Qf Waf John fl pro pro-Southern Democratic faction, and ordered assist Mr. John Bell. of the Constitutional ant adjutant Major Fitz John Union party. The election of Mr. Lincoln, Southern spokesmen have warned, will trigger secession.

There is already strong reaction in some Southern states. FLECTION RETURNS at this point indicate that Mr. Lincoln will receive few if any votes in the South, and not many more in the border states. But his support is so strong in the Northern and Midwestern areas that he will obtain more than a simple majority of the 303 electoral votes required. The Repubu'can.

party, formed but six years ago, failed in its first bid for the presidency. In 1856, it backed Mr. John C. Fremont, Savannah-born explorer of the West and former governor of California. Mr.

Lincoln, chosen at perhaps the most critical juncture in the nation's Lincoln Lift Foundation Abraham Lincoln As He Looked in August, 1860. Porter, to inspect Ft. Sumter there.) (JURIOUSLY, the four presidential nominees this year represent three adjacent states in the Midwest and South. Mr. Lincoln and Sen.

Douglas are Illinoisans; Vice-Pres. Breckinridge is a Kentuckian, and Mr. Bell is from Tennessee. (Vice-Pres. Breckinridge's North Carolina born running-mate, Sen.

Joseph Lane, represents Oregon, and Mr. Bell's running-mate, Mr. Edward Everett, is a former governor of Massachusetts. Sen. Douglas' running-mate, Mr.

Herschel V. Johnson, is a former Georgia governor.) Mr. Lincoln, a relatively unknown political figure prior to his nomination at the Republican party's Chicago convention in May, is the father of three sons. His wife is the former Miss Mary Todd. The President-elect is self-schooled, served as a Captain in the Black Hawk War, practises law and served a term in the House of Representatives.

MR. LINCOLN came to major promi' nence last Feb. 27 when his speech in Cooper Institute, New York, gained him many supporters. One reporter then called him "the greatest man since St. Paul." Mushrooming support for his dark-horse candidacy vaulted him to the nomination over his party's best-known leader, Sea William H.

Seward (N.Y.). Since his nomination, Mr. Lincoln has rarely pressed his candidacy. He has also steadily refused to restate his slavery views, holding such pronouncements are well known and repetition would only give opponents opportunity to misinterpret them and employ the distortions as propaganda against him. In essence, however, his basic view is this: He has said he does not intend to tamper with slavery now existing in the South but he is opposed to its extension to Western territories and future states.

READING ELECTION RETURNS LAST NIGHT OUTSIDE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICE. Carolina's 'Only Course': Secede, This Is Gov. Gist's View; He Recommends Arms. COLUMBIA, S.C.-GOV. William H.

Gist told the South Carolina Legislature Monday he considers secession the state's only course if Mr. Abraham Lincoln is elected. The election is now certain. He urged a complete reorganization of the militia and the arming with weapons of modern warfare of every man between the ages of 18 and 45 years. The Legislature, he said, should be ready to prepare the state for a crisis.

Setting to work right away, the Legislature proposed to give the governor $100,000 of the military contingent fund established last year for procuring arms. Under the proposal, to be acted upon Wednesday, the money would be used to buy small arms, rifled cannon, tents and accouterments. £1 A CAUCUS Monday night, was ascertained that a majority of the legislators were for immediate secession in the event of Mr. Lincoln's LINCOLN HEARS NEWS. Spends Much of Night In Telegraph Office.

He Cuts His Own Name From Ballot at the Polls. SPRINGFIELD, III, Wednesday, A.M. Mr. Abraham Lincoln has spent much the night receiving election information in the telegraph office here. He takes the news all of which, thus far, is cheering with great The returns, and many messages of congratulations, are handed to him as rapidly as they are received.

A special celebration is being planned for Thursday, but there has been no indication that the President- elect, born in a Kentucky log cabin 51 years ago, will break the silence he maintained throughout nearly all the campaign. If he speaks at all, it is thought, he will say only a few words. LINCOLN spent the better part of election day in the governor's room of the State House, receiving numerous visitors and chatting with them, sometimes in a humorous vein about affairs far removed from politics. He had expected to wait until 5 p.m. yesterday to vote, thinking there would be less of a crowd at the polls then.

However, a lull appeared in the voting at about 3 p.m., and Mr. Lincoln strode to the Courthouse to cast his Lincoln's Birthplace on Nolin Creek, Hard in County, Kentucky. ballot. At first he was not recognized; but when the crowd did identify him, he was welcomed with the wildest kind of cheering. He advanced to the voting table and handed in his ticket, upon which, it is hardly necessary to say, all the names were sound Republicans.

UE DID ONE curious cut his own name from the top of the ballot before lasting it. Then he walked back to the State House, removing his hat and bowing to the crowds as they began to cheer anew. Mr. Lincoln went to the telegraph Election Reaction: North Is Calm, South Is Angry: Reaction to Mr. Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency ranges from peaceful conduct in Northern states to militant action and fiery speech-making in the South.

Here is a representative view covering the spectrum of reaction: GEORGIA. It appears that Vice-Pres. John C. Breckinridge has carried Georgia by 5,000 to 10,000 votes. He received sizable majorities in Chatham County (Savannah) and DeKalb County (Decatur) but lost Fulton County (Atlanta).

In Fulton, Mr. John Bell, Constitutional Union party nominee and a Tennessean, captured 1,195 votes to carry the county. Vice-Pres. Breckinridge obtained 1,018 votes, and Sen. Stephen A.

Douglas secured 347. Mr. Lincoln did not receive a single vote. (A slate of Republican electors was not offered in Georgia.) In the Atlanta precinct, the voting was: Mr. Bell, Vice Pres.

Breckinridge, 835, and Sen. Douglas, 835. Vice-Pres. Breckinridge obtained 1,815 votes in Chatham County to 517 for Mr. Bell and 321 for Sen.

Douglas. SAVANNAH There is intense excitement here. Large crowds are gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit is one of resistance to Mr. Lincoln's administration.

Mr. C. A. L. Lamar announced in the newspapers that he has been given Gov.

Joseph E. Brown's authority to raise and arm "with the latest and most appropriate weapons" a militia unit of 100 men. The company is to be formed tonight. AUGUSTA At the request of some prominent Georgia citizens, U.S. Arsenal here has been placed in pos- session of federal troops as a pre- cautibn against possible trouble which may arise from the presidential election.

There is to be a meeting here tomorrow night to form a Minute Men Club (an anti-Union militia). The colonial flag of Georgia was raised here and at nearby and there is talk that citizens will gather in many county seats to raise Minute Men corps. OHIO, CLEVELAND-The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorialized today: "The South have sworn upon the altar of their gods that they will secede in case Lincoln should be elected. Lincoln is elected and the South are left no alternative but to stop swearing or go to seceding." VIRGINIA. RICHMOND Election day here was attended with great excitement.

Large throngs were around the polls. Some fights occurred, resulting in one or two persons being badly mauled. Col. Dimmock, commandant of the I slate armory, left for Washington last night to receive, and forward, 5,000 I muskets purchased by agents of the state from the federal government. SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON In this, the capital of secessionist fervor, feeling runs intense following Mr.

Lincoln's election. The States' Rights flag, a red star on a white ground, hangs from public buildings, replacing the Stars and Stripes. Crowds today choke the streets to cheer the Palmetto Flag, hoisted amid wild shouts from the (office of the Charleston Mercury. i in the midst of the excitement came verified reports that Federal District Judge A. G.

Magrath, Collector of Customs W. F. Colcock, and Mr. James Connor, the U.S. District Attorney, had resigned their positions.

Said Judge Magrath, laying aside his judicial gown: "So far as I am concerned, the temple of justice raised under the Constitution of the United States is now closed." Militia units and Minute Men drill; bonfires, parades and "resistance rallies" further excite the city. COLUMBIA Gov. W. H. Gist has received telegrams of support from some secessionists in various areas.

From Raleigh, N.C.: "North Carolina will secede." From Montgomery, "The state will undoubtedly secede." From Milledgeville, "The hour for action has come. This state is ready to assert her rights and independence. The leading men are eager for business." From Washington (the nation's capital): "Several extreme Southern men, in office, have donned the palmetto cockades and declared themselves ready to march South." A second message read: "Be firm; a large quani- ty of arms will be shipped South from the arsenal here tomorrow. The President (Buchanan) is perplexed. His feelings are with the South but he is afraid to assist them openly." From Richmond, "If your state secedes, we will send troops and volunteers to aid you." NEW YORK.

NEW YORK It was fairly quiet election in New York. A few persons were arrested for attempting to vote illegally, but them was little trouble. The entire police force was on duty. Republican newspapers ha4 tioned the Republican Wide Awake Clubs to have their members at the polls on election day to catch persons trying to vote more than once. The reward for apprehending a person in such an act is $100.

The Wide Awakes also were admonished to see that the ballot boxes were not stuffed in advance of the opening of the polls at sunrise. A slight disturbance was created Monday afternoon when Mr. Tommy Lloyd began to recite from a speaker's platform his address, "33 Reasons Why Lincoln Should Be He had not finished the first reason when persons in the crowd began to pelt him with rotten and paper balls. However, order was restored, and he continued until all 33 reasons had been given. NORTH CAROLINA, FAYETTEVJLLE The U.S.

Arsenal here is to be occupied by cavalry company, at the request of citizens here, to prevent'any difficulty arising from the presidential election. RALEIGH The governor and his council are in session today. The election news warrants the belief that the Legislature will be called together immediately. The people are believed much excited in favor of secession. WAKE FOREST Mr.

Abraham Lincoln was burned in effigy Monday before a large crowd at Wake Forest College. It did not deter his election, however. WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON The excitement here was very great and, news of Mr. Lincoln's victory was fijrcu- office at about 9 p.m., and before an hour had passed received this cheering message from Mr. Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania 70,000 for you.

New York safe. Glory enough." Without more definite news of New York's 35 electoral votes, there was, however, a tenseness in the 1BOUT MIDNIGHT, Mr. Lincoln went to an entertainment prepared by the ladies of Springfield for voting Coffee was served, there was much gaiety and Mrs. Lincoln was an honored guest. Suddenly a messenger burst in with DOUGLAS MOBILE Sen.

Stephen A. Douglas last night looked "more hopeless than I had ever before seen him," his secretary said. Sen. Douglas, one of the three losers in the just-ended race which thrust Mr. Lincoln into the presidency, knew last night of his "loss and was not shocked.

He received election returns in the, office of The Mobile Register. Sen. Douglas, the most active of the candidates, has been touring the South, hoping to prevent secession. On election eve, he told a large audience here that their rights would be more secure inside the Union than out of it. The senator, nominee of the pro-Northern wing of Democrats, had predicted Mr.

Lincoln's victory early in September. He told a friend, Mr. Anson Burlingame, that Mr. Lincoln's election was certain. The senator then added: "Won't it be a splendid sight, Burlingame, to see McDougall returned senator from California, Baker from Oregon and Douglas and Old Abe all at Washington together?" lated, a rumor exploded that secessionists had seized U.

S. forts at Charleston. The rumor, however, proved false. A party of about "National Volunteers," who supported the candidacy of Vice-Pres. John C.

Breckinridge, invaded the Republican "wigwam" about 1 this morning. They destroyed furniture, fired pistols at the windows and stole several uniforms belonging to members of the Republican Wide- Awake Club. Nine arrests were made. a telegram from New York, reporting that state solidly for Mr. Lincoln.

The entertainment became a glorious shouting and singing party and Mr. Lincoln was clapped on the back and congratulated as the next President of the United States. Later, he returned to the telegraph office to receive more reports. Outside, the streets were filled with shouting people, singing "Ain't you glad you joined the Republicans?" and music from bands mingled with the booming of cannon. Mr.

Lincoln won the city safely, but carried the county by only votes. election, it was clear that secession sentiment was building up hourly, and correspondents telegraphed their newspapers that the Legislature was more disposed action than to words. Gov. Gist summoned the Legislature into special session Monday to appoint presidential electors and to be ready, if necessary, to take action to protect the state. In letters to all other Southern governors except the anti-secession Gen.

Sam Houston of Texas, Gov. Gist already had said he believed South Carolina, would secede if another state did, or if assured another state would follow her lead. "I would earnestly recommend that in the event of Abraham election to the Presidency, a committee of the people of the state be immediately called to consider and determine for themselves the mode and measure of redress," Gov. Gist said to tho Legislature. the only' alternative left, in my judgment, is the secession of South Carolina from the federal Union." INDICATIONS justify the conclusion that South Carolina would ultimately be followed out of the Union by the entire South, the governor continued.

Ho warned that if the federal government abould attempt to coerce a acceded South Carolina back into too Union, "it will become our solemn duty to meet force with force." At for preparing the state for a crisis, he declared: "Every man in the state, between the ages of 18 and 45, should be well armed with the most efficient weapons of modern warfare, and all the available of the state used for that purpose." He 'recommended "thorough reorganization of the militia so as place the whole military force of tho state in a position to be used at tho' ahortest notice." S. ORDERS ARMS, CHARLESTON, S.C.-An agent of Gov. William H. Gist yesterday acknowledged the letter's instructions to purchase rifles from the U.S. War Department via the pro-Southern Secretary of War, Mr.

John B. Floyd. Gov. Gist, who Monday addressed the opening of a special session of the South Carolina Legislature at Columbia, wrote Mr. Thomas F.

Drayton here the same day. Mr. Drayton yesterday acknowledged the authorization "to purchase from the War Department at Washington 10,000 $1 Million Asked for Georgia Arms. Gov. Brown Recommends Retaliatory Measures.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga-Gov. Joseph E. Brawn, in an address prepared for delivery to the Georgia General Assembly today, that body to appropriate $1,000,000 to a military fund, "To every demand for future eon-' cession or compromise of our we should reply, too argument is ex hausted and we now stand te our arms," he said in hit menage prepared for delivery. Gov. Brown, holding that the constitutional rights oT people of Georgia have been violated by aev- eral non-slave states, fjao to demand retaliatory and for the futuro protection of tbtfo rights.

VE PROPOSED a tax of per cent on goods seat to Georgia from or manufactured in Vermont, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Maine, setts, New York, Michigan end otfcer he accused of violating Georgia righta by act, ently, he was referring to nullifying the fugitivo slave tow. He also recommended izing the seizure of money or property belonging to any citiieo ot those states, the money to bo used to indemnify the of fgQV. BROWN'S mmOft Wis to be 11 delivered against a backdrop oj election signifying tht flec- tion of Mr. Abraham It is understood that tfci South Carolina will cam- nuittontrs to the Georgia Optra) Assembly to urge it to take Georgia out oj tht fertbiii, However, any move union on part oarUu) to be resisted by a-number of leading men of the state, among them former U.S. Rep.

Alexander H. and former Gov. Herschel V. Johnson. prospect of a major debate on the subject of secession, with both sides represented in strength, is not MEANWHILE, lomewhat hopeful reached former Gey, son, From New York, Mr.

John W. Dodd, an resident visiting there, "(Semi of the of Lincoln are promuing they will kjck the overboard, with their and'that the new admin- Utration wJU bf composed of eft pen and Northern Tnat the fugitive slave law he executed and that slavery shall be interfered with anywhere, either in states or territories, "If they tell the truth and this policy is carried out, it the wolf from our doors for another four God preserve us a happy and united country so that pur children may blew oujr nwraoriei." FOR SALE CORN WHISKEY at gallon, 1.