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 POLITICAL PARTIES IN OREGON 37 that such a meeting should be held and it is hoped that everybody who attends will do so in a fair, candid and calm spirit, so that the uneasiness now prevalent may be effectually removed." The meeting was held, pacifying speeches were made, and a committee composed of both Copperheads and Union men J. S. Smith, N. T. Caton, R. P. Boise, C. G. Curl and J . C . Peebles was appointed to draft pacificatory and reassuring res- olutions which were reported to another meeting held on the fol- lowing evening. "There was a meeting to suppress insurrection at Salem last night," wrote our faithful chronicler Deady to Nesmith. "Don't know how much cause there is for it, but suspect there is some truth in the statement that arms have been shipped here from California and distributed through the in- terior of the state." Oregon gave Lincoln a majority over McClellan of 1431 votes.47 McClellan carried nine counties Baker, Benton, Jack- son, Josephine, Lane, Linn, Tillamook, Umatilla and Wasco but with small majorities ranging from 10 in Benton to 119 in Umatilla. Lincoln's majority in November was only about one-half what Henderson's had been in June. The Union vote in the state had not fallen off it had increased by over 1100 votes; but the Democratic vote had increased by nearly 2500. In the hitherto sparsely settled districts of Northeastern Ore- gon, the Democrats gained nearly 1000 votes in the five months. The vanguard of "Price's Army" had arrived. The cloud the size of a man's hand could be seen on the political horizon of the Union party. 47 Official returns, in Statesman, Dec. 5.