Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-21

PARsoN BRowNLow, who has been speaking
at the west, and who has enjoyed the best IA
cilities for ascertaining the popular opinion at
the northwest, has just written letter from
Chicago, from which the following extracts
are taken:-
s'The result of the elections in these north.
western states is the topic among all classes
of men, and will be the occasion of great re.
joicing in the southern cOnfederacy. | have
taken some trouble to look into the cause, and
my only establishment is that the Union can
didates held their own as well as they did, or
that as many of them were successful at the
polls OF 100000 in the army from Illinois,
| have no doubt that $4,000 of them would
have voted the Union ticket, had they been at
home. Instance few facts in Iowa. There
provision was made for sending sworn com.
missioners to the army, to take their votes by
regiments, and the result was that they voted
the Union ticket. | conversed with two of
these commissioners, who informed me that
in one regiment the bogus democracy got fire
votes, and in another, SIXTY votes
''Here, in the states, thousands who voted
with these miserable sympathizers, were car
ried away by the charmed name of democra-
cy, and they did not intend to vote against
the war, the government and the country, as
III reality they have done. The democratic
leaders and candidates have declared them
selves for the war, and promised, if elected,
to prosecute it with more yigOr than the party
in power are doing.
Then, thousands of what are called repub-
lican voters voted the democratic ticket, as a
rebuke to the administration war policy-I
mean its tardy conduct of the war. All hands
cOneede that president Lincoln is honest and
patriotic, but they complain bitterly that he
has exercised too much leniency and forbear-
ance towards the rebels They complain
that his generals in command are too Slotc--
that the achievements on the part of our arms
have not been equal to the men and money
consumed, and that the president has CON
suited all the parties for advice, and been too
much influenced by those who were either
selfish in their objects, or secretly in sympa-
thy with the rebellion. The sentiment of the
people is, that we must have change of
policy and change of men.
Loud complaints are made against some of
the cabinet officers, for their false notions of
a Conservative policy. The people-aye, the
very people who elected Mr. Lincoln, demand
three achievements at once, and they will not
be satisfied without them. One is the capture
Of Richmond the other is the seizure and
occupation of East Tennessee and the other
is the opening of the Mississippi river to its
mouth. The loyal people OF the northwestern
states are far in advance of the president and
his cabinet and even his army officers. The
people demand that an army shall be marched
through the states now in rebellion, to confis-
cate the properly OF rebels, of whatever name
or nature, and 10 call upon Union men every
where the army passes, to rally around the
national standard.
II have defended the president in every
speech have made, and excused, as best /
could, his forbearance policy; but venture
the prediction, that if twelve months more Of
the slow, do-nothiag policy Of the past, shall
be carried out, the administration will not be
able to carry one state in the Union. The
people are sick and tired Of this tame policy
Of the government and Of the creeping Hegli-
geace Of the men in command Of the army.
There is an end to human endurance, and
that end has been reached by the people at
home Action is now the word.
rhe people do not doubt but W hat Mr.. Lin
coin is honest, patriotic and Jealous in the