Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-11-10
Thursday Morning, Nov. 10, 1859.
The Election

We have met the enemy and We are theirs.
After hard and fiercely fought battle the
democracy have carried the State by deci-
tled working majority, which secures TO them
the United States Senator for the next SIX
wears in the place of tho present incumbent,
Hon Mr.. Pearce In this they only hold
their own, as Nj Pcarce is a Democrat. -
The Opposition or Union party did n0biy IN
old AlIegarv. Ccntcnding with an odds a.
Rainst them OF some FIVE hundred votes, they
have succeeded in clccting two members of
the Legislature, the Sheriff, two Comrnission-
ers and one member of the Orphans Court.
This was nobly done, and old AQlcgany has
covered herself with glory. II the Oppose
,.ion had had the most remote idea thai they
could have done so weil--they would have
done better still, but werej0ice over what has
been accomplished, yes, and we will reJosce
over old Allegany. Bat while we do this,
we deeply regre. tina. cur bretkten of the
other counties that compose this C&nsression-
al district should have failed to perform their
duty. The flying colors with which our no.
bic and talented STANDARD bearer, the Hon.
II. W. Hoffman, passed over and out of this
county, natuSally led us to expect, as we had
right to do, that Washington and Freder-
lex counties would have done as web as they
did two years ago; bat in this We have been
mistaken Our iriendsin Frederick, at least,
have suffered themselves to be frightened from
their consistency by the raid of e. madman.-
That it has been go is evident from the vote
cast in that county, on from the line OF the
Rail Road, and away from tire Immediate
scene of Browns Operations, oar candidate
for Congress has made considerable gains,
but in those precincts Shich were near the
scene Of the matllnSns exploits, his este has
fearfuly fallen oti from what it was two years
ago. That it should be SO IL q tnauer OF nssr-
vel to us, when il Is known, as We charged
before the election, that the whole RESPONSE
bility of those fearful scenes that transplred
a. Harper's Ferry, is attributable to the cr-
erlosting agitation OF the negro question by
she democracy With that unscrupulousness
For which it has been SO long famed, it took
holl Of this transaction, and endeavored both
publicly and privately to connect our party
and particularly our candidate for Congress,
shxcush his Brooks vote, with this vile ag-
erosion on the soil Of our OWN, an: OF Il
neshboring stntc Finding themselves in
adequate to his defeat by fair and honorable
means, they resort to q base and vile SANDER
10 accomplish it, while the intellectual imbc-
eility they put forward as their candidate,
announced publicly from the rostrun' with
IA air of self qualification and triumph, that
the EIarpcr's Ferry instruction would elect
MIN. But Il i. useless for us to point ou
she causes that produced our defeat, or to Ia
,uent over democratic ste ccss-we would rath'
er council our friends to be of good cheer
rally afrcsh 10 Tie contest The hopes o.
the Onion are upon the Opposition and Con.
scrvative element opposed to democracy. -
The disunion democracy may flourish for a
season, but the sober second thought Of the
reopie will bring them right.