The elections in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa come in favorable, though the vote and the
majorities are reduced from the Presidential election. I am glad that the Union
party has done well in Philadelphia, for if we had lost the city or given a
small vote, there would have been a claim that it was in consequence of my
circulars. As it is, I get no credit, but I escape censure for doing right.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 381
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