[Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) by James Gillespie Blaine]@TWC D-Link bookTwenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) CHAPTER X 47/56
Connecticut was carried by Governor Hawley against the most popular Democrat in the State, James E. English.
California gave seven thousand majority for the Republicans, while Oregon elected a Republican governor and Republican representative in Congress. The aggregate majority for the Republicans and against the Administration in the Northern States was about three hundred and ninety thousand votes.
In the South the elections were as significant as in the North, but in the opposite direction.
Wherever Republican or Union tickets were put forward for State or local offices in the Confederate States, they were defeated by prodigious majorities. Arkansas gave a Democratic majority of over nine thousand, Texas over forty thousand, and North Carolina twenty-five thousand.
The border slave States were divided.
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