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ning that we can have no honorable peace until the 

 insurgent armies are dispersed and the leaders of the 

 rebellion expelled from the country. I believe that 

 a cessation of hostilities would lead inevitably and 

 directly to a recognition of the insurgent States; and 

 when I say this I need hardly add that I can have no 

 part in any political movement of which the Chicago 

 platform is the basis. No, fellow-citizens, the only 

 hope of securing an honorable peace a peace which 

 shall restore the Union and the Constitution, lies in 

 a steady, persistent, and unremitting prosecution of 

 the war; and I believe the judgment of every right- 

 thinking man will soon bring him to this con- 

 fiction. 



The great interest taken by a portion of the 

 clergy of the country in the result of the Presi- 

 dential election is stated in the " Christian 



Kegister," Nov. 12th, the leading organ of this 

 Unitarian denomination. It says : 



Last Sunday, allusion was made to the election, by 

 very many clergymen, and the drift of their remarks 

 were unmistakable. The New York correspondent 

 of the "Boston Journal" says: " Nearly every pulpit 

 yesterday resounded with patriotic appeals. Most of 

 them were draped with the American flag, and flung 

 out the nation's banner from their flagstaff's." 



The New York "Tribune" reports Mr. Beecher's 

 discourse on Sunday evening, and characterizes it 

 as the sixth and closing sermon of a remarkable 

 series. From the remotest border of Maine to the 

 rebel line, from the Atlantic to^he Pacific, the duties 

 of the hour were made the topic'of prayer and sermon. 



The election for President took place on No- 

 vember 8th, and the vote was as follows : 



The total vote of the people at the Presi- 

 dential elections since 1824, has 'been as fol- 

 lows : 



In 1864 there were eleven States which did 

 not vote. If the vote which these States 

 cast in 1860, viz., 858,524, is deducted from 

 the vote of that year, there will remain 3,821,- 

 069, being the vote in I860 of those States 

 which voted in 1804. 



But the vote of 1864 was increased over that 

 )f 1860 by the vote of the Territories Kansas 



* Democratic majority. 



t Decrease. 



and Nevada, which had become States, viz., 

 36,552. With this deduction, the vote of 1864 

 was 3,964,298. The vote of the twenty-two 

 States in 1860 and 1864 was as follows : 



Year. Vote. Increase. 



I860 3,821.609 



1864 3,964,293 140,700 



This is the increase of the vote of 1864 over 

 1860 in the twenty-two Union States, includ- 

 ing also the vote of West Virginia, which was 

 33,590. 



The Presidential electors m 1864 were as 

 follows : 



In Illinois, the first three named are Electors 

 at Large ; in all the other States, the first two. 

 The remainder of the names are placed in the 

 numerical order of the districts they represent. 

 The Electors of Delaware, Kentucky, and 



