, 1863-04-23

It is easy to trace the widely different
extremes 10 be reached and relatively af-
tected By the tidings of the result Of the
municipal election in this city, On Tuesday
last. On the one hand, there eau be no
doubt rs to how the news will be received
in the hottest inner circles Of the rebellion.
Rebel leaders and rebel presses will
chrlck1c over it, claiming 1t rs significant
proof Of disintcgration III the loyal North
And for precisely this seeming token, Mr..
Sherman's leading partisans have been at
work. On the contrary, the news Of
q reverse to the Union party in this
city, will cause sadness in the hearts
Of thousands to whom the Union is
dear, and IFS pcrils matter Of personal
burden and sorzow. It is but the voting
Of single city, in local election, but it
will be recognized as the movement Of
scale beam and construed to record wider.
sweep, and results On q larger scale, for
this city is the Metropolis Of the Northwest
It's voice will be claimed as expressing the
sentiment Of the section OF which it is the
commercial centre So loyal men will
everywhere regret, md rebels, and rebel
symrathizers, everywhere rejoice in the
reelection Of Sherman in Chicago.
That this construction Of the result is
wrong, glance at tho facts will show,
Figures will tell more un1nistakably than
any other statement can do, precisely the
nature Of this election Wegiye elsewhere
O review Of the comparative features
and results. This shows certain promi-
ncnt facts. First, that the vote
cast was the largest ever pol1ed in Chica-
60. That the accession Of territory under
the new charter brought strength solely to
the Coppcrhead element, by including with
in the, limits certain fragrant precincts for
years past successfully mined for raw
voting materials for importations, but now
for the first time voting in their OWN neigh
borhood at Chicago election That with
Ill this accession of nearly SEVEN 1nous-
AND TO our total vote Of last year, the ma
jority for Sherman in 1851 is re-
duced from over eleven hundred
10 less than one hundred and
fifty. Accepting the entire Copperhead
vote as legal, aud some points on that
subject are given elsewhere in this ISSUE
the result cannot be hailed as very happy
augury for the Chicago Copperhead De.
mocracy. Aside from the humiliation that
Chicago must bear in the infiction of a
Sherman and his managers for two years
longer, the Coppcrheads have nothing else
to exult in. Their days arc numbered,
Their last pcnry is paid for the meal ol
yictuals now in their mouths.
We bid our Union friends elsewhere
mark these facts. Let them give our loya
voters the credit Of having worked well ana
nob!y. Against what they worked, vi
show elsewhere. The result thcy gained
is permanently recorded. In that they fail
ed to elect their ticket is a theme ofclagr,,
and regret, but all is not lost. The figure
they rolled up in the Union vote are tn
emphatic voice Of Chicago as sustainin:
the Government and the war by the lars
est vote ever cast for Republican, measure
in this city. None understand this bette
than leading Copperheads, whose teeth ar,
not get at rest from chattering at their nar
row escape, which after all is but respit
fromtEeir sure obstruction.