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The Liberator
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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Election returns show Unionists sweeping Ohio and Indiana with heavy majorities and gaining congressional seats, including defeat of Democratic candidate Mr. Cox. Pennsylvania has gone Republican by 15,000-20,000 votes, favoring Lincoln over McClellan in the November presidential contest.
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The election returns from Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio have not yet been so fully received as to say exactly what the result is. But they are sufficient to enable us to say that the Unionists have swept Ohio and Indiana by heavy majorities, and that the same party have gained largely in Congressmen. Among the defeated Democratic candidates is Mr. Cox of Ohio, who has been exceedingly bitter against New England.
Pennsylvania has undoubtedly gone Republican by 15,000 or 20,000 majority, as the soldiers' vote is all one way, and that is, for the Union ticket. These elections would seem to settle the Presidential contest in favor of Mr. Lincoln and against General McClellan. The whole Northwest will undoubtedly vote in November in favor of Mr. Lincoln; also Pennsylvania and New York. In fact, we do not see what State Gen. McClellan can carry. The vote of the army is somewhat different from what the friends of General McClellan anticipated, and shows conclusively that whatever may be the opinions of the army in regard to General McClellan as a soldier, the rank and file will not vote for him as President so long as he stands in his present hostility to a vigorous prosecution of the war.—Boston Herald.
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Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio
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unionists swept ohio and indiana by heavy majorities with gains in congressmen; defeated democratic candidate mr. cox; pennsylvania went republican by 15,000 or 20,000 majority; favors mr. lincoln in presidential contest
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Election returns indicate Unionists won Ohio and Indiana decisively, gained congressional seats, and Pennsylvania supported Republicans; soldiers voted for Union ticket; results settle presidential race for Lincoln against McClellan, with Northwest, Pennsylvania, and New York expected to follow; army vote shows opposition to McClellan's war stance.