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Title: The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Publisher: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ection of Senator Trum-bull was assured. One of the most remarkable features of the campaign andelection was the increase of republican strength in Egypt. Inthe region below Alton the party made a fourfold increaseover Fremonts vote in 1856. Republicanism had fought anuphill battle in the southern counties, and these importantgains were made against great odds. John A. Logan, thechampion of Egyptian democracy, contested every inch ofground that was lost, sometimes by methods hardly scrupulousin character. It was by such tactics that the determined con-gressman acquired the cognomen of Dirty Work Logan.By threats of mob violence he compelled the editors and pub- 47 Amos C. Babcock to Trumbull, August 27, i860, Trumbull manuscripts;Canton Weekly Register, October 11, 30, i860; Illinois State Journal, October10, 31, i860. S. G. Ward of Elgin explained in a letter to Trumbull, January 14,i860 (1861), how he had colonized eleven Kane county republican voters inPeoria. Trumbull manuscripts.
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Q Union (Bell) over 5% D Democratic (Breckin-ridge) over 5% THE ELECTION OF i860 201 Ushers of the Franklin Democrat at Benton to sell out at aruinous sacrifice, because they had hauled down the Douglasand Johnson banner and were about to raise the standard ofLincoln and Hamlin.48 Voters of republican leanings werereminded that schoolmasters had been dismissed for voting forFremont in 1856; clergymen, antislavery propagandists, werethreatened with an investment in the martyrs garb — tar andfeathers; the Reverend Mr. Ferree of Lebanon was peltedwith eggs on the streets of Cairo while making a republicanspeech.49 In spite of everything, however, the conversion ofa native occasionally took place, while an influx of intelligentimmigration from the eastern states continued to carry theleaven of republican sentiment into dough-faced Egypt.50 48 See statement of A. Sellers, Jr., and G. Sellers, in Illinois State Journal,September 20, i860. A number of new republican papers made their appea

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