Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-09-29
MAINE ELECTION.


The returns received expose remarkable fact. The
rain Of the Federal party is not the consequence oi the
reduction Of Democratic votes. FaIrtelds vote Will
not be rs many hundreds short (t is at ALI Of his for
ner vote as the Federal vote has increased thousands
And how has the Federal vote been increased. Maine
has moi increased in population since the last year. II
IS an emigratinG Stale. And yet the new influx OF re-
de.a votes would Justify the Inference that the popu-
lation had increased twenty thousand. Some OF tho
means employed by Federalism increase It's poll will
he seen in the following authentic statements The
Eastern Argus gives tins sign:
"N,yrorr.M-Iu>, the presiding officer IN certain Federal
town oviod county was proceeding L" receive The ,"S :" the
people there, Drmo'ra demanded that he bale" '"N sh%h m
c,amimtwhn trod. ftrai ro''s dc0rcrc! H.
This Huc rjrk, If practscd in every town Of Maine
bv the Federal officers Of election, would make up the
sum total of their gain But they have other modes OF
fraudulent increase We take the following from the
Bay State Democrat, authentic Wing circular:
"PonTL,>p, Scri.3, lso
turncd you name legal that
eNme themselves 10 Tie utmost to bring out all their strength nj
the approaching election on camel do them greater iaN"I or
place them under obligations Ia titan by arranging
tour business Ia liz with them "u III" liIlI INST.
hr IN thi, comfy Will l clnSc that III" absence o a
III lie from III" polls los" III" niect,r
y 20 n g% ,H DE- T T" ;"T1:F r XIV f t n
SAGE HOME AND BACK ~ THE STEAMBOAT, You VIII
%" l. Central WHAT Boston whether viii be possible for
order thai an armnsrmcn, may be made win your
friends Ia take you home on tie arrival oi Inc boat
'By crd,r Of ne Hhjg C.anty Commi''er.'
and vet we find the Federal party providing money 10
npor and crport votcrsthat is to bring former resi-
dents who have taken up their abode elsewhere,
uHOME AND SEND THEM BACK" There IS
no doubt but that hundreds of persons, citizens OF
Maine residing and engaged in business elsewhere,
have been carried back, under this Federal construc
ton TO vote in the late contest and that they Will next
vote the Federal ticket the State in which they really
reside The great Bunker Hill Convention was APP
pon,ed TO be held only few days before the struggle
in Maine and there is doubt it furnished quota of
those migratory voters whom the Wing commit
tees returned as Isgdi voters although then resident
in the State and therefore 10 be written for, and 'prO-
ri$i0n inGdc fer Mcir pGSs0"c home and bacb.
In addition this mode of recruiting, there is Il per-
feet certainty that many Abollionsts that have hitherto
kept aloof separate party have merged them
selves in Whggery. This there doubt, increased
the Federal majority in Vermont from little upwards
of tco thousand last year to ten this. This effected
principally through Sladc who made Joint Fl ,RRIsoS
,SD ABOLITION SPEECH, which was printed III immense
quantities of the central fund of Whingery After
its publication Slade devoted himself almost exclusive
", even during the session of the House, ranking
it, and we are Informed BY pondents in Yer
mont that had the effect of bringing the whole body
Of the Abolitionss the polls in support Of Federal
Abolitionsis, pledged 10 the support, of HARRISON
Among the number Slade hmselfobtaned vote vastly
increased beyond his last poll.
In Portland, Maine, the Federal party brought out
for Congress the of the most notorious and veteran
Abolitionist in Maine. Cen Fessendcn has always
been thorough going blue light Federast and
Their step in his hostility TO Democracy, he anon
the first to steep his Lue in the b'ack business which
seemed 10 promise more for the overthrow OF our mon
and institutions, than all the causes Of dissenson
preached By his friends in the Hartford Convention