Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-11-30

THE ELECTION GEN. H. L. PAINE
SIN TOR DOOLllTLE.
MrIwAuKEE, WIS.,

NrLwAUKEE, WIS"
Nov. 9. 1866
vo,rov w,rcaMAN ;--Iu letter Jew
-. .eo. | wrote you that We would seho
20 Vermont glad tidings," Ia response to
nor erecting, when she rolled up such grand
Renobliean majority at her last election
The prom Sc can now make good, for the
Republicans have nobly carried Wiscon'iu-
elected every Congressman but one Eldridge)
and reduced his ajority Of twenty live hun
dred in s64. to six hundred in 1896. The
contest was long and hard, and what laures
we have won, come, as eli noble results do,
from uuremittng toll and labor. You know
Milwaukee has reputation throughout the
country of being the worst Copperhead rem
degvous in the Northwest. The Democratic
majority usually ranges from two thousand
TO three thousand, but by the untiring efforts
Of the Republicans, they only carried the city
by some four hundred majority, while we
elected our ticket in three or four wards.
The great contest has been confined to this
district, now represented by GIN. HAIBERT
L. PAINE. You will pardon me If refer
more particularly to his career as soldier,
as be is known to the Vermont troops, and
especially by Gen. Stephen Thomas and the
old Eighth Regiment, with whom he was as
sociated in the Department of the Gulf Al
the seige Of Port Hudson he commanded 0
Brigade in the same division with Genera
(then Colonel) Thomas, and well did he ac
his part in that bloody drama.
The old members Of the eighth Regiment
will remember the fourth Wisconsin, which
served with them 10 the glorious campaign o
the Gulf, and will doubtless call to mind It's
gallan, commander with his long, black, curly
hair dropping to his shoulders, his erect form
as he sat on his horse, and the sharp eye
which glistened through shaded glasses. Ii
the first assault upon the battlements Of Por
Hudson, this Regiment fought n,ai the Eight
and General Paine commanded a Brigade mex
to Weiize's isvorite Brigade. In the disss
troas assault OF June l4lh, when we had los
many a gallant soldier and when the Sunda.
morning sun rose upon the dead and dying
General Paine fell wounded and helples
and endured the tortures Of heated Southern
sun q ! day by laying under the walls OF III
fortress whence be could not escape until dai k
He recovered after long and painful sickness
but has lost leg and is cripple for life
The people Of this district sent him to Wash
ington to represent THIN, and now have re
elected him as member Of The Fortieth Con
gress. During the canvass General Butle
gave a week to this State, General Shu'z O
Detroit, General Siegel of Maryland, Speske
Colfax, the Southern 10y alists and others to-
have helped us, and now we send to the East
ern and Middle States the requiem Of " m,
policy" in the announcement that Wisconsin
gives TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND maj nj
ty for the RADICALS, and joining the column
against the usurpation, dictaion and trcach
cry of an apostate President. We expect tc
become as radical as Vermont by and by, anC
we warn you to look sharp for the laurels.
Among the fruits Of Senator Doolittle'i
efforts is the election Of a Republican at Ra
cine, his home, by an increased majority ovel
the last. Another item for the Senator is
that when asked 10 resign by the Legislature
be declared the people Lad not spoken on the
present question, and That they would sus-
tain him. lincoln's majority over Mcclellan
is beaten by about eight thousand, and il
ought to convince the Senator that our people
have now spoken with emphasis Senator
Howe will be reelected, and to close with d
prophecy, the successor of Senator Doolttle
will be Vermonier and a former resident Of
Washington County, lawyer and relative
Of your Executive. SO say the knowing
ones. His name by and BY. G. n. c.