Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-01-25
Written for the Newsdesler
CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

horizon of the late campaign, we can take
calm survey of the field and compare
notes as to the result. Surely our success
has been glorious Away from the East
comes the glad tidings that my own ma
tive Green Mountain State" has rolled
up her thirty thous nd majority for the
cause of Freedom and the Union God
bless her She is always right AL
ways one of the first in the cause of JUS
tice and humanity; | am proud of her !
proud of having been born and reared
among her green hills, under the very
shadow of Mansfield to whose rocky sum-
nit have clambered many time when
boy. before there was such thing as
Summit House or Halfway House, or
even path to guide the pedestrian from
civilization up its rocky sides And |
am also proud of the state of my adop.
ton, the gallant Prairie State of the
great West Nowhere were the copper
heads and traitors more rampant and sure
of success than in Illinois and Indiana.
Secret and traitorous organizations existed
in our very midst determined to carry
these states into the domiuions and under
the control of jeff Davis & Co by force
of arms if need be. The plot at Chicago
and the recent expose at indianapolis
prove this.
Our copperhead legislature two years
ago denied the hundred and fifty thousand
loyal soldiers of Illinois, the right of
voting,-the right of being citizens of
Illinois Indiana done the same. and
for these and other reasons they were very
jubilant and sure of carrying these great
states in the presidential election in '64.
The copperhead organ here in Peoria,
said Just before the election, that "such
revolution as is now going on in the pub
lie mind was never before known, and on
the 9Th of Nov. we shall sweep these pra-
tries a. with fire aud sword I"
The storm came and passed, and 10
such revolution was never indeed known.
The copperhead editor was right, with ou-
ly this slight difference, the boot was on
the other leg from what he had pulled it
in imagination.
The copperheads under "a more vigor.
Gus prosecution of the war" carried the
state in 90 by nearly $4,000 majority.
electing 8 out of IA congressman and their
legislature DISTINGUISHING the soldiers,
they were sure of victory again in '62.
Now look at the result: The Union gain
on the cope head majority of '62 is near
10000 we have elected | of the II
congressman, all the state officers. legisla-
tare, &c, thus securing to the country
the election of loyal U. S. Senator in
place of the present copperhead incum-
bent. His successor has just been elected
by our legislature and is the man who
has so nobly served US for the past four
years as Chief Executive of the state !;
the man who has put more men into the
field according to the population of the
state than any other; the gallant Dick.
Yates.
The state has done we'll as a whole F.;
the north part has ways done we'll. In
this district, 18th, Springfield district,
in 1862 John L. Stuart, the nominee Of
the copperheads, stumped the district,
claiming that he Was a no-party-man ;
belonged to no party but was Union
man and went in for more vigorous pros
ecutior of the war. and was elected by
over 1900 majority. This year he stump
ed for reelection, advocating the Chicago
Platform and endorsing McClellan--two
years ago we we're not prosecuting the war
hard enough, now we were prosecuting it
too hard-there's consistency for you,--
we'll this time he was elected to stay at
home. Cullom, the Union candidate be-
ing elected by over 1900 majority.
But Egypt heretofore benighted Egypt
but now, thank God where the light Of
Heaven is beginning to shine; it is to
her that we owe in a great measure our
splendid victory 1t seems almost incred
ible, but figures wont lie they say way
down in lower Egypt, in the 18th district
john A. Logan. then Douglas democrat
was elected to Congress 10 1860 by nearly
1900 majority, the largest majority
think given to any congressman in the U
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