Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-10-21
OCTOBER AND THE PRFsIDENov,

/ OCTOBER AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Unfonists Of Indiana have settled al
question as TO the vote of their State for Pres.
ident. We considered her, after Kentucky
Missouri Delaware and New Jersey, the Statt
most likely 10 east her vote for Mcclellan: ano
we felt certain fas we now dol that no fifty Elec.
toral Votes can be given To the Chicago ticket
unless by the aid OF this State And yet there
lives to-day no American, qualified to sit on a
4 jury, who does not kssosc that she viii choose
Lincoln Electors on the Sth of next month.
| Let us here state a fact that has casually come
to our knowledge, and which is illustrative Of
the late and the pending canvass: The Union
istsof Indiana, feeling that they had right to
/ the votes of their fellow -citisens serving their
country In the field, and that they were likely
to need them, dispatched, some two or three
weeks since, gentleman of high character to
Washington to solicit furlOughs for al the SOL
/ diers from that State-Or, if all could not be
/ spared, then for so many of them as could be-
| They desired no partiality-no picking and
cullIng-they wished regiments in full sent
home indiscriminately, and the more the better.
Their agent was cordially welcomed, admitted
confdentially TO an inside view of the Military
situation, and asked whether he could consci-
entiogsly advise the Withdrawal, even for a
week, of even one regiment from the service.
He could not respond affirmatively; he gave up
the quest and went on his way. And our ar
mics in the field have not been weakened by a
single regiment to strengthen the Union cause
for the recent Elections. few soldiers have
been furlOughed, mainly from hospitals; but
the Indianislns deprived of their votes by rea-
son of their absence from home in the National
service, would, have given nearer Thirty Thou
sand than Twenty thousand majority for the
Union ticket. Yet Indiana is carried high and
dry for the UniOnists, who have made a cleaner
sweep of the State than any party ever made
before. Their Presidential canvass is virtually
ended, and they can henceforth help their less
fortunate neighbOrs. And all do know that,
when Indiana goes this way, neither Illinois
nor any other State of the Free West is likely
to go the other.
L of Ohio. less need be said, because her Un-
iOnists have neither been distrustful nor dis
trusted. Nobody imagined that they would
again pile up such enormous majority as that
whereby she last year elected Vallandigham to
stay in Canada; but all felt that she must go as
she went last year, though not SO Overwhelm-
ingly. But the result has far surpassed our
most sanguine hopes. The aggregate popular
majority cannot fall below Sixty Thousand,
when the Soldiers Vote shall have been re-
turned, while our gain of Members of Congress
rs certainly ten and may be tloeLUe or over. In
other words, we have fifteen to seventeen Un-
ionists chosen to the next House, instead of tUe
NDo hpofeSOh Ofle 1OuTbee0 I0Clu0e
Pendleton, Long, s. s. Cox and other of the
fiercest foes Of the Administration. The VIC
tory is so thorough that Ohio, too, is hence
forth practically outof the Presidential contest.
Pennsylvania is not; and yet she has given a
large Lincoln majority at this election, while
the votes Of her great Union strongholds-Al-
leghany, Lancaster, Chester Indisna, Erie. DC.
are not nearly polled out because no ade-
quate motive for exertion was presented to
many Unionists. Allegheny County will give
Ten Thousand majority for Lincoln, though
she has now Exclusive of the Soldiers votes)
given much less, Lancaster is good for 5000,
though she has now given but 1000 Phila-
delphia on our side, Berks on the other were
well fought; but Philadelphia was an exception
to the general rule. When the Soldiers votes
are all in and counted, the State will be found
to have given not less than 10, 900 and probably
nearer 20, 900 majority for the Union ticket
electing Is to lS Union Representatives in Con-
gress out of "a, which stand equally divided in
the present House. and there is no doubt of
decided Union majority in both branches of the
Legislature. We can do great deal better
than this in November; but this is enough for
the present Pennsylvania has no more idea of
voting for McC Clelan than for jeff Davis himself
.UniOnists of all the Staiesl we can sweep the
deck if we Will New-Jersey is going with
us; Maryland is clearly for us; the hardest
States to carry for Lincoln are Kentucky, Del
aware, and Missouri. But Price will soon be
skedaddling from Missouri, with half the Oop-
perheads of that State in his train; Delaware
VIII now 60 right; and even Kentucky will
yield to the majestic current Let us resolve |
10 carry every State not under the heel of JEFF.
Davis! We can if we wiIl.-N T. Tribune.