That Brough will be elected over Vallandigham in Ohio, by 100,000 majority. Think, that if Curtin should be elected in Pennsylvania by an overwhelming majority, the rebels will be completely disheartened and speedily throw down their arms. The result will be the more certain as all chance of foreign intervention in behalf of the rebels has passed away. England won’t meddle, and France is afraid. Now, if the friends of the drafted men want them to return home in a few months, let them vote the Union ticket. The election of Curtin will shorten the war, showing as it will that the people of the North are united and resolved. This is a fact that is undoubted. So vote then, in October, as to secure a speedy peace, and a return to the homes of your friends.
Raftsman’s Journal, Clearfield, PA, October 7, 1863
