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Domestic News September 26, 1840

Boon's Lick Times

Fayette, Howard County, Missouri

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The recent Vermont election resulted in a decisive Whig victory: their gubernatorial candidate won by over 10,000 votes (up from 2-3,000 previously), all congressional districts elected Whigs, and the legislature became overwhelmingly Whig-dominated, countering Democratic successes elsewhere.

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THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS OF VERMONT—“all in line!”

What school boy has not read of the resistless valour, the ardent patriotism and the whole soul'd devotion to country, which distinguished the unclad and unfed soldiers of Vermont in the days of our Revolutionary struggle? None! What slanderer so hoary or hardy as to call Vermont a federal State? None!

And how has terminated the recent election in Vermont, where the Locos run an Abolitionist and an Anti-mason in hopes of detaching a portion of the great Whig army, which has every where been augmenting in strength for the last three years?

The Whig candidate for Governor is elected by more than ten thousand majority. At the last election, the same man succeeded by between two and three thousand.

In the last Congress there were three Whigs and two locos—Now, every district sends a Whig.

The Legislature, which was somewhat close before, has now scarcely enough Locos to furnish even one member on each of the standing committees.

Thus answers back the North to the shouts of triumph in the South and West! The victory is important and decisive not only in that point of view, but because, also, lying along side of the strongest loco foco division of New York, it is scarcely less significant of the result there than it is decisive and glorious of itself.

Courage, Republicans! The country is yours!

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Politics

What keywords are associated?

Vermont Election Whig Victory Governor Election Congressional Districts State Legislature

Where did it happen?

Vermont

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Vermont

Event Date

Recent Election

Outcome

whig candidate for governor elected by more than ten thousand majority; all congressional districts send whigs; legislature now has scarcely enough locos for one member per standing committee

Event Details

The recent election in Vermont saw the Whig candidate for Governor elected by a large majority, with all districts sending Whigs to Congress and the Legislature becoming overwhelmingly Whig, despite Locofoco attempts to split the Whig vote using Abolitionist and Anti-mason candidates

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