Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-05-31
THE LATE ELECTfoN.

The Richmond Examiner thus refers TO the recent
election, and thelitte interest manifested by the peo
pie of the State generally, as to its results:
The important canvass which ended yesterday
evening" was the most stupid and uninterestng ever
known to the State Does any reader recolect ano-
Their time when the approach of great election was
viewed with such apathy and indiference2 The
candidates for Legislative and Senatorial honors
themselves have appeared for the first occasion in the
memory of man. completely careless whether they
were elected or beaten The Wing party in nearly
all the Congressional Districts went into the fight SO
weak and enfeebled by past Negotiations, that they
were scarcely able to stagger up the polls; while
the masses have been less afflicted with the notion
that the disorders of the world awaited their correct
ing hands, and bent upon the settingo tobacco
plants and the seeding of corn hills, than we have
ever seen them in the bonny month Of May.
The truth is we, the people, have been done to
death with elections To the pollsl-to the polls
rally Whigs-come up tsHFriends- of
DIcKE-Friends of Friends of HARRY! to armsl
to arms to armsl-What month in the year has not
had to hear-(and to echo alas) these detestable
haoos-theSe hackneyed slogans of partizan warfare
invented and contrved for the benefit of selfish and
rascaly politicians who never did or will care a
straw for any living thing besides themselves How
fiat and odious have they got to be. How doth our
souls grow sick and turn YEARLY away from the pa
per, when called on to betoul our pens once more
with them. These: are our own sensatons-what
must be those of the long suffering population at
whom such EXPLANATIONS have been launched contin-
ually since Lord knows when? Certain it is, that
constant has at last robbed these COMPUTATIONS of
their power Our serpentine pumpkins hcarken not
to the fugles of their charmers, blow they so
loudly and so wisely. To the most appalling cries.
they answer with snore They hear the most dread
full and sublime prophecies without much a mo-
mentary interruption to their bacon-chawing; and
when one begins patriotic appeal about tanner,
blood, serried ranks, trumpets, old guard gallant
champions and peerless the wretches
at
to death with politics For the last years no sea-
son has been exempt from this ubiquitous plague
Elections elections electioust In summer and
winter in heat and in cold in moist and in dry this
people has been ordered and reordered TO turn out
and go to the polls Election of Judges election of
Senators, and delegates, and Constables and Presi-
dents, and Magistrates, and Night Watchmen, and
Surveyors, and Congressmen-there has bcen no end
to them. The extra sessions of the Legislature and
double Reform Conventions, between them, have
drained the pockets of the people, exhausted their
practice and wholly taken their time for years The
public mind has become utterly sick ofpoIitics, and
looks forward to respite of two years with much
happiness as lNIoN ever did to nap upon his Wheel
Nothing but great occasion will ever bring out
the full vote of Virginia again.