Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-09-23
LINCOLN TELEGRAPH.
BotI), Mlc.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. %, ls41.
The Lnte Election.

The Late Election.
The heat of political excitement-if there was
any with the Wing party-has now subsidized, and
we have leisure for dellberaton and calm refec-
ton. So far as the late campaign is to be taken
into practical account, its results are of but little
consequence, farther than the measures of the
next session of the Legislature are to bear upon
the future complexion of State politics We
mean by this, that no important principles have,
as the result of this election, been settled. In
1910 the State declared for Wing principles, by
the election of Harrison electors by a majority of
over 800. The battle warmly contested
both parties made every exertion, and brought
their full strength to the polls. A glance at the
state of the vote this year shows concluslvely,
that, while the Administration, or Wing party,
have made but little exerton, their opponents
have marshalled their strength to man. The
polls show beyond cavl, that whilst the oppos
ton has on the whole, throughout the State,
reached about the same aggregate vote, as last
year, the Wings have suffered their vote to de-
crease more than the amount of Fairfeld's ma
iority. This, to our mind, is conclusive evidence,
that so far the politics of the State is concern
ed, there is really no change! We stand pre-
cisely as last year,
This being the true state of the main question.
we come now to consider very briefly, some Of
the reasons for the apathy so prevalent in tie
Wing ranks, and which, in this campaign, has
operated so dsastrously. This cannot be better
done, than by adopting the following language
from the Portland Advertiser, which, although
not covering the whole ground, is sufficiently
plicit for the present.
alt is useless to deny the fact that many -four
Wing friends were willing to place their adver-
saries in power for the sake of expressing their
own dissatisfaction. Some were vexed at the
National and State appointing nts, and others at
the failure of great object for which they had
long contended manfully and we'll To the first
we have nothing to say. They have given way
to personal feeling, and that feeling must correct
itself, or it will not be corrected at all, If the
question of q office" were the great question
which regulated their political action, why sufF-
Gent to such must be the motive. We are not
disposed either to comment upon, or to interfere
with it.
To those who suffered themselves to be dis
hearened by the failure of all efforts to charter
Bank at the recent session of Congress, we would
say that it is hardly wise to visit upon themselves
many evils because they have failed to secure
one desirable object VIII the want of those
blessings anticipated from a well-regulated fs-
cal agent be made more tolerable by Locofoco
msrue in our State aifars' Is the domination
which they shook off by one strong effort last
year so longed for that our friends are uncom-
Portable without it, 1t is, in truth, somewhat
difficult for us to perceive how our Wing friends
are to be gratied in the present state ofthings by
return to all the denominations inflicted upon US
by the old regime. But there is no benefit ia dis
putting about matters of taste. flour friends de-
sired all this, they are, we confess, in fair way
to be gratfed
For ourselves, we have no more at stake in po-
litical affairs than others of our fellow citizens
We are anxious to receive all the blessings of
good government. If we cannot have it, and
must come to a trough and tumble" mode of get
ting along, why we must run chance. But
we are not disposed to abandon great principles,
and to let a great party be overthrow, simply
because we cannot have our own way when we
will, and as we will. The part of wisdom is to
hold on until we are compelled to yield, and not
to throw ourselves into ditch so long as we are
able to keep the road"