Abstract

A Sectional Review of the Late Canvass

The genesis of the political movement which suffered so signal and complete a break-down on the fifth of November, people owe notoriously to that portion of the country which it is now the fashion to call the Interior; in other words, the Mississippi Valley, the Great West of former times. More narrowly, people owe it to certain politicians of St. Louis, who, for the sake of an alliance supposed to be valuable, consented that the effort to create a new party in ninety days should be known in history as the Cincinnati movement. Whatever enthusiasm attended it in the beginning was confined to those two cities; elsewhere, at least in the North, its results were awaited with indifference, distrust, apprehension, or simple expectancy.