The election returns from Pennsylvania and Ohio are cheering
in their results. The loyal and patriotic sentiment is strongly in the
ascendant in both States, and the defeat of Vallandigham is emphatic. I stopped
in to see and congratulate the President, who is in good spirits and greatly
relieved from the depression of yesterday. He told me he had more anxiety in
regard to the election results of yesterday than he had in 1860 when he was
chosen. He could not, he said, have believed four years ago, that one genuine
American would, or could be induced to, vote for such a man as Vallandigham,
yet he has been made the candidate of a large party, their representative man,
and has received a vote that is a discredit to the country. The President
showed a good deal of emotion as he dwelt on this subject, and his regrets were
sincere.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 470
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