The further political history of the county to I860 includes nothing of importance, aside from the party struggles on the great questions of the times. The presidential votes of W7estchester County from 1S48 to I860, inclusive, were as follows; 1848.-- Lewis Cass (Dem.), 2,146; Zachary Taylor (Whig), 4,312; Martin Van Buren (Free Soil), 1,312. 1852.-- Franklin Pierce (Dem.), 5,283; Winfield Scott (Whig), 4,033; scattering, 61. eye-witness. of an narrative the i From a Smith's Manual of Westchester County, 35.

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of Yonkers, 187.

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1856. -- James Buchanan mont (Rep.), 3,641.

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(Dem.), 4,600; Millard Fillmore ( Whig), 4,450; John C. Fre-

1860. -- United vote of Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell, 8,100; Abraham Lincoln (Rep.), 6,771.

The divided condition of the Democratic party in 1848 caused the county, for the first time in its history, to give a plurality for the opposition candidate for president, but this was only a transient fickleness. The generally conservative character of our population is capitally evidenced by the result in 1S5G, when the new Republican

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party, organized on the issue of non-extension of slavery, made its first appearance, with John C. Fremont1 as its candidate. Fremont received less than thirty per cent, of the total vote. In I860, despite the great distractions from which the conservative forces suffered, they still rallied a united vote some 1,300 larger than that cast for Lincoln.2 1 General Fremont resided at one time at Mount Pleasant, in the house built by General James Watson Webb.-- Seharf, L, 599.