The re-election of Lincoln.
Intelligence, believed to be authentic, was received in this city yesterday of the re-election of
Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the
United States.
A well-known citizen of
Fredericksburg, who entered the enemy's lines below
Richmond yesterday under flag of truce, was informed by a Yankee officer that
Lincoln's re-election was, beyond a doubt, a fact accomplished.
According to this officer's statement, the States of
New Jersey and
Missouri alone had gone for
McClellan,
Kentucky had not been heard from.
The
State of Maine gave
Lincoln a majority of thirty thousand. New York city went for
McClellan by a majority of thirty-eight thousand, which had been overcome by the vote of the whole State.
This accords with what the
Yankee pickets in front of
Petersburg told our men on Wednesday.
They said
Lincoln had been re- elected, and that we might prepare ourselves for four more years of war. Few of our people will be disappointed by the result of this election, since it is only what we have all expected.
Had
Lincoln allowed himself to have been beaten, he must have been either a fool or a patriot, neither of which his warmest friend nor bitterest foe has ever suspected him of being.