History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
From henceforth (October 1, 1864) to election the paper is full of reports of mass-meetings, political advertising and appeals to voters to "Register, register," till November 13th, when the conclusion is, "The grand old Democratic party of the State of New York yields the battle-field, covered with all the glory a nobly contested struggle can confer upon it." A touch of liumor is conferred on this issue of the paper by a glance at the advertising column, exactly opposite to the editorial. The advertisement is as j follows:
"The Re-election of ABR.\II.\M LINCOLN, and The election of ANDREW .JOHNSON, and TheUNIVKKSAL UNION TItll Ml'H will be celebntted in Yonkers, Tuesday evening, Novend)er l.")th, by a TORCHLIGHT PEOCESSIOX and ILLUMINATION. All UNION men and LOYAL oitlMDs are cordially invited to take a share in the celebration. Y'onkm, Not. 9, 18C4. "N. P. Otis, Sec. Johs V. PAonox, Chairman."'
The Gazette subsides after this till December 3d, when a sermon is preached, from which we cull :
" CHARITY.
"The meddle:iome notions of New England Puritanism . . . found a eongenial topic in the slaver\- question, and decreed, at an early day, QMt there should no longer be peace on earth or good will among men ■Blew the negroes were emancipated. . . . The full fruits of such teach- ' iagB are just now visible in the want of charity manifested by the supportere of Mr. Lincoln's administration towards their political opponents. DMferences of opinion . . . are made the subject . . . of unjust charges «f disloyalty and treason to the country. . . . This bitterness and un- ^•rity are a stain on the national character. They constitute a stiite of Ming discreditable to charitable people and which dese^^■es the severest