The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-09-18
York County Republican.

The result of the election in this coun-
ty proves that the people of York County
arc thoroughly Republican. The entire
Republican ticket is elected by some three
or four hundred majority. The result is
most gratifying, plsEit is doubly SO be-
cause the victory has been achieved un-
der circumstances that show that tho
people of York arc firmly, deliberately,
and from we'll maturcd conviction, OPP
posed to the policy Of that sectional prln-
ciplc which seeks to make slavery q ma
tional, instead Of sectional institution.
This is the third deliberate expression of
the people Of York against the infamous
violation of the plighted faith of the ma
ton involved iysthc repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and renewal of their con-
domination of the policy and measures OF
the last and present national administra-
tons. Without earnest cxhortation from
leaders, without partizan appeals to pre-
JUDGES, and in canvass singularly free
from excitement, the people of the couu-
ty have voted for the principles and poll
CIV on which for more than sixty years
the government was administered. Ear
ncstly and periodically they have stood
by the right, and this thrice repeated de-
feat of the Sham Democracy, must teach
the leaders Of that sectional party, that
hereafter they can have no success with
the intelligent men of York, that their
scnseless gable of abolitionism, disunion-
ism, and sectional agitation, has ceased to
frightcn or deceive the people, and that
the voters of the county can readily dis
tinguish the real Democracy, from the
sham and spurious. Aside from this city
and vicinity, where the Republican loss
was quite large, owing to large foreign
vote, and other causes not all showing
that the sympathy Of the people here in
favor of Rcpublicanism had diminished,
the Republicans have maintained their
ground. In some of the towns, like AL
fred, Sanford, Buxton, Berwick, and other
towns, they have made handsome gains
from last year, and in most Of the towns,
the Republicans have held nobly up to
their. position last year. m
The result is the more gratifying, be-
cause the victory is achieved in spite OF
the most strenuous cxcrtions Of our oppo-
nents to carry tho county. The nomi-
nees Of the Sham Democracy, and the
leaders of the party, entered most warmly
into the canvass. They visited personally
every part Of the county, spent money
without stint, and rcsorted to every de-
vice to secure success. The Sham De-
mocracy were thoroughly organized. The
Democratic nominees rcsortcd to tricks
which no honest men would have resort
cd to, to steal in votes by the circulation
of mixed tickets, and other operations,
which savoted more Of the tricks Of the
gambler, than the opcnncss Of honest
men and upright politicians, Tho word
was circulated throughout the State that
the county Of York would be carried for
the Sham Democracy. The organ Of the
party here declared in its last issue before
the election, 4,he Republican cause is at
its last gasp in this old Democratic coun-
ty,' and its columns rang with charges Of
the traitor Morrill,, 6kcuing him to Bene-
dict Arnold, and a hundred Infamous accu-
sations against the men and principles Of
The Republican party. Thcpeoplc Of the
county have answered the insults Of these
men and their organ, at the ballot boxes
and their verdict although il cannot teach
these men dcccncy, it will convince them
thst the people Of York can neither be
scdi,ced nor frightened from the standthcy
have takensI That hey are to- day, oscar.
nest in their condemnation Of an infa-