, 1864-11-13
Qtlttdq1 Gribn1tf.


THE GRAND RESULT IN HLL1NO1s.
The cloud has lifted. The returns are In.
Ne know exactly ~herc We stand. Illnols
has propounccd her Judgment with no uncer-
tain sonnd. Tho party that assembled IN Con.
ycntlon In this city, bat little moro thnu two
months ago, md who, In their great conf.
dcucc, dared TO outrage tho loyal sentiment
Of the people with tho Chicago platform, haye
doubtless d'gcsted the fgurcs thoroughly and
learned a lesson which they will not soon
forget Two years ago they carried tho State
BY 1e 900 majority, By d!nt Of calling for
moro vfgofoua prosecution Of tho WAT. They
pushed tho boundary limo of Democracy north.
!, ,wasdto tho counties Of viii, La Sallo and
Rock Island, al Of which elected Democratic
members of the Legtalaturc for Tho first time
in ton years. They helped thcmsolyes 10 nlpo
Of tho fourteen seats in Congress helongsng 10
Illinois, and they elected Senator OF tho Uni.
tod statcs 10 Ml The unexplsed term Of tho
lAmcntcd Douglas.
Now tho c4So is royerbed-reycrscI with q
vengeance. A thundoEbolt las shot through
tho stata from North 10 South. IT,
course can DO trnced With great
distlnctnoae along tho line OF tho
Central Railroad TO Tho Ohio river wbcro
ltcxplodcd With terrible violence. II struck
William Joshua Allen, tho worst Copperhsad
In tho state. between tho eyes. 1t "shockcd''
William B. Morrison, another of tho same
tyibc,who hsppcncd to be in that vicinity, 10
badly that he la not expected to recover. II
put q quiotus On certain inobriate Senator
named Richardson, who talked sayagcly ut
tho Chicago Convention. It upset the small
~ t.. III
altlcs being. really too NUMEROUS to mention.
Wetold them 20. When they published thsaf
principles to the country, wc said: "Thoy car,
ried Tho State two years ngo by crying for q
morc vigorous prosecution Of tho war. They
cannot carry 1t now BY crying for d tcrmlna-
ton Of the war at The cost of q discovered
Union," :..",-
While the entire result In Illinois must ap.
pear remarkable to ,tne Copperhcad, leaders
there a.e ccrtain features In the returns which
VIC confess are remarkable to ourselves. We
did not expect that the northern counties
would outdo the great things which they did
in 1860. We did not believe that tho coun-
ties Of Lake, McHenzy, Winnebago, ogie,
: Carroll, Lee, Whltcsidcs, Kankakee, Kendall,
Dupagc, Henry, Ve1uilion, Mclean, ETC.,
after the exhausting calla that have
been made upon them for volunteers, would
roll up the majorttiea, which they gave four
years ago, much less that they would exceed
:. those figures. But strange as this may ap-
pear, 1t lis t1ihc compared with the rcvolu-
~tion which has taken place In Egypt. While
we gsre all the encouragc cement and lid ii our
power to Gen; :1Lcc:zan, and the noble band
whom he led in ths 18th District, wo hardly
dared to hope that Mr. KnykendaM would ro-
: --cciru minority in my single county in his
district. We remembered that Mr. Llnco1n's
Eotes in aI that section, four years ago, did
moi average hundred to county, while the
Democratic majority ran absolutely mountain
thigh In johnson, williamson Pope, Mhssac,
Pulaski, Hardin, Saline, Gallatin, etc. We
WeIo repeatedly assured that MI. Kuykenda
= would be elected, but we had heard Of our
gains Ia that quarter- before, and they had
bcco found elsewhere than In the ballotrboxes
on election day.: Mr.. .Knykendall is elected
neEclthelcss.- We have seen that which We
hoped our children might some time see, bnt
which VIC coevere1pected to behold. We hare
seen ticket labeled :" Regular Democratic" :"
voted down In Egypt We can'now perceive the
rcasnn-~-Logan aud -Haynie aud .Kuykcndall
proved to The people that the Democracy Of
dhat ticket was bogus, that 1t was a sham,
4hatit was dhloyal to the country, that it
was inimical to the soldiers Of the Republic,
and that they were inim1cal to it. So 1t went
down with great crash. And let all the peo-
.. pic say Auan~ --..-.--