The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-08-11
Result of the State Election.

The returns received are quite sufficient
to authorize us to claim the election of G.
+. Jackson for Governor, and all the State
! ticket by a large majority. We shall give
the returns as rapidly as they are received
Our letters and dispatches give all the in
formation i'll our possession.
For Congress, we have no doubt of the
election of Phelps, Noell, Norton, Clark
ana Reid, In their respective districts,
some OF them by large majorities. In this
district Barrett triumphs over Blair for
the vacancy, and Blair, by reason of the
division OF the popular vote on Barrett and
Todd is elected, the majority for these
candidates being at least 5000 over him
In the Second Congressional District, Hen
derson and Rollins have made a gallant
fight and We fear that Rollins has been
, successful. His majority in district
which, in the race with Stewart gave him
over 1900, will be greatly reduced, and
this result might have been changed if
the friends of breckenridge in Lincoln
county had voted for him. We shall wait,
however, for the full returns.
The Legislature will be Democratic, but
with Il greater infusion of the Opposition
element than obtained in the last Legisla-
ture.-.I Louis RtpuJFcHn, Oh.
THE following patriotic extract we make
from Judge Douglas speech on the occa-
sion of his reception at Concord:
Then again when you come to talk to
us about dissolution of the Union, we
tell YOU No never We trade southward
as well as northward We furnish the wa
ter that floats down the Mississippi as well
as the wafer that flows through the lakes
of the ST. Lawrence We intend to follow
that water wherever i. flows until it min
giles into the broad ocean. Applause -
We have social and commercial relations
with the South and the East alike We
have the tie of the country and Of blood
that binds them together. When YOU tell
us that this Union is to be dissolved we
say Never for the reason that We never
intend to travel into Il foreign country,
and obtain passport and have il riscd by
consul III order to visit the tombs Of our
fathers or the scenes of our childhood -
Hence there Is not a man on the frontier
that don't love this glorious, Union and
because we do i"ve tn. Union our motto
is never to do an act that would alienats.
one portion Of the people from another
You can only preserve the Union by main
tanning peace and harmony and concord
among the people of the different sections.
Remember that one tie after another has
already been severed This fell spirit of
section al strife has invaded the holy sane
tuary, and separated the churches into
churches North and churches South. This
fell spirit Of sectional strife has separated
brethren at the communion table. And
when you find spirit of strife 50 deadly
that it can sever social tie, and political
tie. what is your Constitution worth, when
Won have made. the leoUlc enemies who
live under it? You must bind the hearts
of this people together If you expect TO
maintain the Union You can only bind
those hearts together. and mould them
into one, by observing those great princi-
pies of Justice and equity upon which our
whole system rests. Cheers.