The Sierra citizen., 1854-09-09
Election Day.

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expected that the sovereign people will
fall back to their wonted equanimity and
resume their every day avocations, which
are only secondary considerations about
election times. The contest has been ami
mated, but withal conducted honorably.
We have heard less personal abuse, less
buncombe oratory, less honeyfugling the
dear people, than in any previous cam
palgn. Each candidate betook himself
to electioneering with will; going entire
ly ON his own hook and visiting the mi
ners at their cabins and at their claims,
and we suspect causing the aforesaid mi.
ners to make use ofsundry irreverent and
disrespectful expletives, after the cand-
date took his leave; for it often happens
that when hard at work, in momentary
expectation of digging out slug, or when
weary and dispirited, they cannot real
ize the perilous condition of the country,
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of the election of particular candidate.
The division in the Democratic party
has changed the whole result of the cleo
ton; the question in dispute was at first
very trifing, but neither faction was dis
posed to concede, no matter how disas-
trous the consequences might be to the
party. We question whether the Non
Electionists ever expected to elect any one
of their candidates; but as they considered
themselves agrieved by the other wing of
the party, they determined 'to make
spoon or spoil horn" In the meantime
the Wings, taking advantage of the family
squabble, elected two of their candidates,
the State Senator and County Judge.
The contest was energetically but honor
ably carried on. Every one for himself,
often irrespective Of party. often depend
ing more onpersonal popularity than party
preferences. Whatever disgraceful SLAM
der and abuse of opponents there may
have been, has escaped our hearing, and
upon the whole we consider the campaign
the most honorable that we have known
in the county.
We do not believe the Wings could
have elected any one of their candidates
had it not been for the division in the op-
posite party; unless it had been their State
Senator. Mr.. Scellen is an old resident
of the county and his integrity is well un-
derstood by the people. If he were not
the honorable and generous hearted man
that he is, he might we'll exult in the de-
feat ofhis principal opponent in the pres
ent election, ex-Judge McCann, who,
had he been elected, would have done
credit to Sierra county in whatever posi-
ton he might have been placed. McCann,
however, is one of the men who needs no
office to put him in position to command
the respect of his fellow citizens, and his
present defeat can be of little consequence
to him. Judge McCann could hardly
have been beaten by any other Whig
opponent So much for party squabbles.
OBscURE.-Friend Helm of the Glib
sonville Messenger couldn't understand
what our correspondent, Fair Play" was
driving at; the whole gist of the argu-
ment is as clear to our mind as mud, and
We still maintain that Fair Play is
Jewel"
BLAxroN, the fast man, who was going
to ride to the Missouri line in twelve days,
has put into Tuolumne Jail for repairs.
THERE Is no PLACE LIKE HONE,
unless It ee the home of the young lady