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this party, which had purloined the whole Constitution and 
revised statutes of the United States as its platform. Douglas 
Democrats tried hard for an alliance with the Constitutional 
Unionists but on the whole without success. 
The Ohio state election came October 9. Republicans elected 
their candidate to the supreme court, but the Democrats 
elected 8 of the 21 Congressmen. The Republicans of Indiana 
elected Lane and Morton and 7 of the 11 Congressmen as 
well as a majority of the legislature. The November election 
held true to the October prediction. Ohio gave Lincoln a 
plurality of 44,388 and a majority of 20,655. The Democratic 
areas of 1856 had been cut into and surrounded and the 
largest remaining Democratic region was that in the north- 
west corner of the state which probably represented a 
majority more akin to “Egypt” and the “Pocket” of Indiana 
than to any other part of the state.^^^ Indiana went for 
Lincoln by a plurality, and Warrick County in the “Pocket” 
gave Breckenridge a plurality, the only county in the North- 
west not to go for either Lincoln or Douglas.^^^ The Re- 
publicans broke into the “Pocket” and carried 4 of the counties 
by pluralities and also Floyd County which had not been other 
than Democratic since 1840. In “Egypt”, as in the “Pocket” 
of Indiana, Republicans found their new tactics successful, 
and in the region south of Alton the party vote increased 
fourfold over 1856. Lincoln’s majority in the state was almost 
5,000.^^^ “Egypt” remained faithful to Douglas, piling up 
large majorities in his favor. Douglas ran well in the old 
Whig counties of central Illinois, and Lincoln’s home county 
of Sangamon, as well as Morgan, Macoupin, Menard, Cass, 
and Macon each gave him either a majority or a plurality. 
This Democratic invasion of the Whig country aided in the 
election of 5 Democratic Congressmen to 4 for the Republi- 
cans. Wisconsin gave Lincoln 86,110 votes to 65,021 for 
Douglas. Bell received 188 and Breckenridge 888. All 3 
Republican Congressmen were elected. The Germans in Mil- 
waukee and Ozaukee piled up large majorities for Douglas. 
Michigan was the banner Republican state in the Northwest. 
^21 The vote in Ohio was: Lincoln, 231,809; Douglas, 187,421; Bell, 12,194; Breck- 
enridge, 11,403 ; Smith, 136. 
^22 The vote in Indiilna was: Lincoln, 139,003; Douglas, 115,509; Breckenridge, 
12,294; Bell, 5,306. 
The vote in Illinois : Lincoln, 172,545 ; Douglas, 160,549 ; Bell, 4,846 ; Brecken- 
ridge, 2,27.2. 
