Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-02
TO THE UNION MEN OF PENNSYLVANIA
Rooms UNION STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
No 1103 CHEsNUT STREET,

No. 1103 CHEsNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA, October 10Th, 1865.
Another political contest has been deter
mined by the freemen of Pennsylvania The
Uuion cause has again triumphed at the
ballot box Official returns have been re-
ceived from sixty of the sxty-six in the
State Of these fifty-four show gains for
the Union cause over the vote Of 1862 The
aggregate gains over all losses are nearly
twenty-five thousand. This will give our
candidates on the home vote alone, major
tiles exceeding that given by army and
home vote to our late lamented President
Lincoln.
OF the seven Union Senators whose terms
of Office expire we have not lost one. The
home vote has gained us one from the OPP
position in Luzerne, and the army vote
will gain us another in Franklin and Adams
In the lower House we have retained all OF
our sixty-three members of last session
The home vote has added three to this
number, and the army vote will give us
one more. The Senate will stand twenty
one to twelve, and the House sixty-seveI
to thirty-three, thus giving to us major
ity of forty-three on joint ballot.
For these results, SO gratifying to the
ftiends of our cause i'll Pennsylvania, and
to all patriots throughout the nation, we
| are deeply indebted to the returned sol
ders Of the Union army, who have taught
their friends and their foes that they know
as well as they know how to fight bravely
and heroically for the same cause
Much praise is due the press of the Unior
party throughout the State for its patriotic
| efforts in the good work,
| To the secretaries of the State Contra
Committee, Messrs. Hamersly and Bene
dict, the loyal men of Pennsylvania are un
der lasting obligations. Upon them de
volved arduous and responsible duties
Many of their lahors are not witnessed ol
| ever known to the public. They laboreC
assiduously by day and by night for the
success of the Union cause, to which they
are both most devotedly attached.
| Every member of the State Central Com
mittee performed well his part, and coop
Grated cheerfully and cordially with the
chairman i'll promoting the success of the
Union ticket. To the chairmen of the sew,
| eral county committees it is conceded thai
much Of the credit of our triumph belongs
To all the true and faithful men of the
State, who SO enlectualIy discharged theil
duties and made our triumph easy as wei
| as overwhelming, our most earnest an(
hearty thanks are extended.
The defeat of our opponents is thorough
and disastrous. To them it was uneXpeC
ted although well merited Having op
posed the war so happily and 30 gloriousl,
terminated, they changed their policy nom
mated officers, and assumed to be the es
pecial friends of the soldiers. They wer
confident and defiant. When we were 81
lent, they clamorously and imperiously de
manded our views. When we spoke the
charged that it was "puerie invective,
They told their followers that we wer
endeavoring to turn their flank" and callet
Justify upon them to pierce our centre
Some of them retired with both flank
turned and their centre pierced The ba
ance were made prisoners
Last year they assured their follower
that the election had been carried at tn
point of the bayonet that military rul
had interfered with the freedom of the eleC
ton, and that our country was fast verginI
towards military despotsm. That shal
low preteXt cannot avail them now
Supporting soldiers, they became til
champions of deserters and refugees froI
the draft. To rally their desponding an
dish' artened forces they proclaimed tina
our President had BECOME convert to thei
views. They well knew the opinions c
those who had elected him. and the prino
pie of the platform upon which he stooC
Yet they would gladly have induced hir
to abandon his friends and his principles il
order that they might be restored to powe
The spirit OF slavery, secession and Stat
sovereignty had assassinated one Pres
dent within the past six months, and wa
trying to demoralize and steal anOthe
The experiment failed the effort to max
it has been terribly rcbuked by the people
and the result is the complete demoraliz;
ton and overthrow of those who dared nit
. represent our Chief Magistrate in order t
, promote the success of their sinking cause
The oft-repeated and well establishe
truth of history has again been viudicatet
No man, in any country, can take side
against his Government when engaged
war, whether foreign or domestic, and II
tain the confidence and respect Of his le
low citizens after the termination of tha
war And such is lae unavoidable fate
pa. ties Either the party which Gntagon
yes the Government during the war mus
go d0Ra or the nation must perish. Ou
nation is too young 10 die. Those Who o,
/ posed our armies and the field OF battl
have been defeated The party whose le;
11eeTs opposed the prosecution ofour war fC
national existence have been peaEen a
the ballot box. Our people have just give
another of the highest pracfs Of the fac
that man is capable of self government.
: The people at the ballot box have d,
clared their adherence to the principle
which were made triumphant by the ski
and bravery OF American officers, soldier
and seamel amid the storm of battle. Ii
all good onion men continue to be fsithfr
to the cause Of their country and all vill
well The nation. nurifed hy the fiery O,