Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-21
Letter From st. Louis.
ST. LorIs. October Is, 49,

81. LOGlot OClObCl ~ AOoOs
EDITOR CHRoNICLE.-I have been
silent for a long time because of my
active participation in the political
| canvass now cOnvulSing this State
from center to circumference. In per-
| Torrance of my labOrs l have been
over the State from the river to Iowa,
and through the interior of the north
ern half of the State, and have learn
ed much of the State, her resources,
her men, her developement, and have
been able to catch glimpses of her fu-
ture glory, of all which you may hear
in the future, after the smoke of the
b1ttle to be fought on the Sd of No
vember prox., shall be cleared away,
the dead buried, and the wounded well
cared for.
will say, that in my judgment, the
CANVASS in no State is being more
fercely and persistently fought than
in this Day by day we push u col
umns forward, upon the works of the
enemy, and upon the grounds occu-
pied in the morning by the enemy, in
the evening we plant the old banner,
and around it we pitch our tents, and
we know mo step backward.
Andwe We do itOurselves,-we have
no aidfrOm abroad,-no such men to
help as lead the van in Ohio, and our
work is hard even to cruelty. No
State heretofore has needed aid more
than this, and we still need it,-a
weeks time spent by each, in this
State, by those giants Gov. Tod and
General Garfield, would make such an
impression upon the enemy as would
makethe balance Of the canvass but a
bagatelle.
But you have not forgotten u.s.
you came to our relief by a telegram
saying, "0hio 10000 Republican ma
jority." This was the first shell in the
camp of the enemy-then came Penn
sylvania, Il, 0OO-then Indiana, 1000,
and we sent the news all over our
State, and in the morning not an enc
my was to be seen.
The Democrats in this city, expect
ing a different result, had prepared a
park of artillery on the banks of the
river, ready to wake the echoes slum-
boring in the city and surrounding
country, and swell a chorus of rebel
triumphthat drown the sOngsof
victory ringing out from Vermont and
Maine,-but they didn't shoot. The
news were not cheering to rebel ears,
it was but the verdict of guilty, to
be followed in NQEember by SEN
tence of determination.
You cannot conceive with what in
tense interest we looked for long, wea-
~ weeks to the October elections in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, nor
how welcome the intelligence wal to
us. 1t is better to us than stumpers,
better tOus than five thousand voters.
1t has appalled, and dismayed the OPP
position, cut oftheirsupplies of funds,
and is driving from them many a
hanger-on to the party for mere poll
cy, and sending them into our ranks
to vote and act with US.
The Radicals were jubilant-hag-
6ying-cannOn neutrality-suspicious.
marching in almost every street
speeches made at every corner@was
eral apathy has left us and gone to the
enemy. With renewed energy We
have gone to work, and we will win
win by . 1000 majority.
The grandest political pageant ever
in Missouri, was held in this city last
Saturday night-six thousand torches
in procession, bands, banners, trans
parencies, devices, wagons with ladies,
wagons with tanners hard at work and
twenty-five thousandpeople present to
hear speeches made from four stands.
The great fightin this city is against
Hon. W. a. Pyle, Radical candidate
for Congress. He will win by a small
majority, 1 think. He is the present
member from this district.
When this canvass is over, Grant
and Colfax will be elected to the office
to which they are respectively nOmi-
mated, on the 4th of March they will
be inaugurated, and into their keeping
we will put the management Of the
affairs of State, with the fullest assur-
ance that we 'shall have peace"