The weekly union record., 1864-11-12
The Result.


One OF the most memorable political cam
paigns which has ever occurred in this or any
country has just closed. There can scarcely be
doubt as TO the result, even in the mind OF
the most iuveteraie COpperhead- Abraham
Lincoln has been re elected President Of the
United States OF America. He is the sixth
President who has been called upon by the
people to serve them in that capacity for two
terms, or eight years. As appropriate TO the
occasion, We give in this connection the names
and terms Of Office Of the fye preceding two
term Presidents: George Washington-Apr pri
80 l7S9. to March 3. 1877; Thos Jefferson
March 1, 1901, to March 3, 1909; james
Madison. March 4, 1902 to March 5. 1877;
James Monroe, March I, 1917, to March 3.
1925 Andrew jackson, March /, 1929, to
March 3, 1887. The interval between Jacks0u's
last and Lncolns first term was twenty -four
years. All of the two-term Presidents were
born on Southern soil-four being natives Of
Virginia, while jackson was born in South
Carolina. and Lincoln in Kentucky. Il is a
noteworthy fact that the four FIRST named fore
saw that evil consequences would result from
the extension of slavery, and regretted that no
plan for its abolition could be agreed upon in
their day. Ii is also remarkable that the fifth
in his Executive capacity, throtted and defeated
the notification and secession schemes Of Cal
houn and his slave aristocratic followers. and
promulged the immortal declaration The
Union must and shall be pyessrved." This
patriotic motto Of Andrew jackson has been
adopted by Abraham Lincoln, and has been
the handspring OF all his actions as President
1t is eminently fitting that, as Southern born
Americans have sought to overthrow the
Government Of the Uni'ed States, in which
Southern men have enjoyed the largest part Of
the honors and privileges, with the hearty con
sent and cooperation Of the Northern people
We say it is eminently fitting that Southern
born patriots and statesmen should be the most
prominent leaders in our struggle for National
preservation and the overthrow of the Southern
conspiracy against the Union. Abraham Lin
coin and Andrew johnson, like jackson, are
from the people of the South, or, as the naughty
"chiyalry' express it, the Inferior races
They are representatives of class who, at the
South, have exercised scarcely more real con
troll than the negro slaves. They have been in
subsection to three hundred and fifty thousand
SHAREHOLDERS. But better day is dawnjng for
the South, when handful Of pampered ariStC-
Gratis shall no longer control and shape its
destiny; but the free people of the South will
unite with the freemen of the North in aecar-
ing that 20 aristocratic or barbaric institution
shall longer curse these United States with its
communicating influences. Having discovered
the cause of all our calamities, they will strike
at the root of it and utterly destroy it. This
will restore to our unhappy country Union and
Peace on surer, more enduring foundations
than have previously existed, and will place
us, as a nation, once more on the road TO
prosperity and greatness at no distant future
to become the n.ightiest nation that has existed
on the face of the globe.