Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Republicanism in Virginia,” June 7, 1859

    Source citation
    “Republicanism in Virginia,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, June 7, 1859, p. 2: 3.
    Original source
    New York Evening Post
    Newspaper: Publication
    Chicago Press and Tribune
    Newspaper: Headline
    Republicanism in Virginia
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    3
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    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    Republicanism in Virginia.

    The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post says:

    “It may seem somewhat singular with you, but I believe the Republicans in Virginia hold the balance of power between the two great parties to day. This is the opinion of a shrewd Virginian politician. There are thousands of Northern freemen already in Virginia. In a town not a dozen miles from Washington there are over fifty voters who come from the North, and are Republicans in sentiment. They proposed a month ago voting for Goggin, but his abuse of the Republicans lately disgusted them, and they agreed in a body to stay from the polls. By another gubernatorial election in Virginia the Republicans in the State will make themselves tell as a power.”

    In the city of Wheeling alone there were four hundred Republicans who [staid?] away from the polls; and in Western Virginia enough to have given Goggin the majority for which he fought so hard; but their self-respect and sense of decency forbade their voting at all. Had he been less extreme on the slavery question, he would be Governor elect, to-day.

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