Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-10-25
TO THE UNION ZEN OF rRxNsYL,
vANIA.

MIrTEE, No. 1ll3 CHESTNUT STREET
PH1IADEIPnIA, Oct. 19, lS65.-Anoth'
er political contest has been determines
1 by the fisemer Of Pennsylvanis. tn,
Union cause has again triumnhed at tn.
ballot box. Official returns have beer
received from sixty-two counties Of the
sixty-six in the State. OF these fifty
four show gains for tho Union cause over
ss vote Of 1862. The aggregate gains
over all losses are nearly twenty five thou
sand. This will give to our candidate:
on the home vote alone majorities exceed.
ing that giysh by army and home vote
to our late lamsnted President, Abraham
Lincoln.
On the seven Union Senator'S whose
terms of Office expired we have not lost
one. The homo vote has gained US one
from the Opposition in Luzerne, and the
army vote will gain rs snott.r in Frank
lin and Adams In he lower House we
have retained all Of our sixty-:hree mem.
bers of las. session. The home vote has
added three to this number, and the ar.
my vote will give us one more. The
Senate will stand tEenty.onc to twelve
and the House sixty-seyen to thirty-three
thus giving to us a majority Of forty
three on joint ballot.
For these results, 50 gratifying to the
friends Of our cause in Pennsylvania,
and to all patriots throughout the nation,
We are deeply indebted to the returned
soldiers Of the late Union army, who have
taught their friends ard their foes that
they Know as well how to vote intelligent
ly for tie cause OF the country as they
know how to fight b.avely and hercicaily
for the same cause.
Much praise is due to The press .! the
Union party throughout the State Cor its
patriotic efforts in the good work.
To the secretaries Of the State Central
Committee, Messrs. Hamersly and Ben
edic,, the loyal men Of Pennsylvania are
under lasting obligations. Upon them
devolved arduous and responsible duties.
Many of their labors are not witnessed
or even known to the public. They la
bored assiduously by day and by night
for the success Of the Union cause, to
which they are both most devotedly at.
tachsd.
Every member Of the State Central
Committee performed we'll his part, and
eo-oYerated cheerfully and cordially with
the chairman in promoting the success of
the Union ticket. To the chairman of
the several county committees it is con.
ceded that much Of tie credit Of our tri-
umph belongs To all the true and faith
full msn os the State, who so effectually
discharged their duties and made our
triumph easy az we'll as overwhelming,
our most earnes. and hearty thanks are
extended.
The defeat Of our opponents is thor
ough and disastrous. To them it was un-
although we'll merited. Hav-
ing opposed the war SO happily and so
gloriously terminal ed, they changed their
policy, nominated officers, and assumed
to be the especial friends of the soldiers.
They were confden, and def.nt. When
We were silent, they clamerously and i'm
periou.ly demanded our views. When
we spoke they charged that it was "ruer-
lie invective." They told their follow
ers "that We were endeavOring to turn
their asrks," aud called justly upon them I
''to pierce our centre" Some Of them
retired with both fsnks turned and their
centre pierced. The balance were made
prisoners.
Last year they assured their followers
that the election had been carried at the
point of the bayonet; that military rule
had intcrfered with the freedom of the
election, and that our country was fast
verging towards a military despotism.-
That shallow pretext cannot avail them
nov.
Supporting soldiers, they became the
champions of desertsrs aud refugees
from the draft. To rally their despond-
ing and disheartened forces they proclaim
ed that our President had Become con-
vert to thei- views. They well know the
,r:nions of those who had elected him,
and the r.rinciples of the platform upon
which he STOOD. Yet they would gladly
,avs induced him to abandon his friends
and his principles in crder that they
might be restored to powei.
The spirit of slavery, Secesss'on and
State sovereignty had assassinated UHe