The statement industriously circulated that a number of
Illinois regiments have voted almost unanimously for the new constitution, is wholly
untrue. It was set afloat in order to
discourage opposition to the instrument.
The two regiments on the Potomac – 8th cavalry and the 39th infantry –
are understood to be unanimous against it.
Letters from Springfield say that there is a high probability that it
will be defeated – the nullifying section of article 2, and the extraordinary
clause giving Justice’s of the Peace authority to imprison citizens for 30 days
without appeal, being extremely unpopular. – Wash. Dispatch N. Y. Trib. 14th.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2
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