The republic., 1851-08-13
The Result In Mobile.

The Mobile Advertiser, of the 9th instant,
after presenting tabular view of the late eec-
tion in that city, remarks:
''The result has astounded both the vctors and
the vanquished. The majority against the Union
ticket proper is unprecedented, and has doubtless
decided the election for Congress in the district
| DIR. Langdon will-unless his friends are as badly
deceived in the country as they have been in the
city-come to Mobile with handsome majority,
but there is little hope of its being sufficiently
large to overcome the heavy majority rolled up
against him here.
1.-THE first question which presents itself to the
minds of friends here and elsewhere is, how has
this unexpected and unprecedented result been
brought about? For the information of friends at
distance will point out some of the means re-
sorted to by our honorable opponents.
'In the first place, they managed to dodge the is
sue of secession. After Judge Bragg returned from
the country the leaders of the Southern Rights party
declared themselves better Union men than their
opponents, and denied most positively that they
had ever been in favor of disunon in the most re-
mote degree. They procured large flags of the
Union-the real stars and sripes-under which
they rallied every night, and under the folds Of
which they declared themselves the devoted friends
of the Constitution and the Union. So read their
transparences, and the motoes their tic kets, the
American eagle also figuring on the latter as well
| as on their large posters. These declarations OF
being good Union men, united to private party ap-
peals secured the votes Of most of the Union DEM
ocrats, as was intended.
"But the main agent was money, and its liberal
use by the active leaders of the party. They
boasted before the election OF having much
money as they needed-could, they declared, raise
fy thousand dollars, should it be needed, to defeat
C. C. Langdon.
"Money, it was asserted on the streets, had been
semitic the city from State Rights associations in and
out of the State-several thousands from South Caro-
lima We do not know where the money came from,
but few in this city 80 badly inform ed as not
to know that money scattered broadcast to in
fluence the election. We doubt whether bribery and
corruption was ever so unblushngly resorted to in
any election which ever took place in the Union.
Men are named who attended the polls and handed
out money with one hand and votes with the other.
Men were also picked up from all quarters, brought
to the city and boarded for weeks in order to have
them here to VOTE Voters, who could not be bought
by paying them for their days lcork, were threat
ened with loss of business if they voted for Lang
don On the Saturday previous to the election, a
fire called for his bill at house where he was
proprietors were going to vote for Langdon. We
heard gentleman say yesterday that he was paid
an account owing to man who said openly he
had been paid twenty dollars for his days work.
''The floating vote was added to and secured by
the liberal OF funds. This accounts for the en-
ormous vote given. Langdon was to be defeated
in this county if money would do it; and money,
illegal and double voting, accomplished that result
We wonder the actors in this outrage on the right
of suffrage do not stand aghast in view of their own
work.
"When fairly beaten by honorable means and
legal votes, submit without murmur, as it is
the duty of every good citizen to do; but when our
opponents deem it necessary to make such assaults
the purity of the ballot box we feel that every
citizen, no matter how humble, should raise his
voice in vindicaton of that channel through which
the people speak their will"