Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-10-23
The MILITARY VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

THE MILITARY VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Facts and figures are difficult to overcome,
says the Harrisburg Telegraph, and are the
only irresistible arguments with which
cause can be substantially established. In
reference to the late election in the various
camps distant from and within Pennsylvania,
containing soldiers who were legally entitled
to vote at the late election, these facts ana ng-
ureS establish two very important claims,
which we desire to record in our columns.
not as a reproach TO those who should be put
to the blush by their abductions, but as a vim
dication of the truth, and those great prnci-
pies of Republcanism on the success of which
now depends the authority of the federal law
and the security of the federal Union. The
vote of the soldiers in camp at the late elec-
tion, was almost unanimously of Republican
or Union character. This is more clearly
demonstrated by the result in the various
counties of the State, showing that in those
counties which were Republican year ago,
our vote was reduced, while the Democratic
vote in the same counties and also in those
decided Democratic last fall, was up to its
full force. In Berks county the Democratic
vote was almost large as that of last year,
and yet Berks county furnished great num-
der of men to the various Pennsylvania regi-
ments. In York county, the same results
prove the same facts-and in other counties
heretofore Democratic, we find that the vote
of that party was equa lly as large as that poll
ed at any of the elections for local State Off
GERS. These figures present a strange contrast
to the claim that the Democratic party has
furnished the largest number of men for the
war--and that contrast is still further strength
ened when the fact is quoted that the military
vote was almost unanim ously cast for the Re-
publican or Union party. But the subject
presents another aspect, equally rebutting the
argument that the Democracy are doing the
fighting, when we contemplate the result in
the strong Republican counties. In Centre
county, that has furnished almost twelve hun
dred men for the war, the Democracy elected
their ticket by polling the same vote they
polled last year, and yet at the Presidential E.
lection Centre gave eight hundred Republican
majority. In Lancaster county the same
causes produced the same results. In Leb-
anon the Republicans suffered defeat by the
same lack OF homo strength, and in every Re-
publican county in the State our vote was re-
duccd far below its Presidential standard, and
much below, also, the vote polled at our usual
fall elections. The volunteers from such
counties, have found their way into regiments
| belonging to other States, by which they e.
established their own disfranchisement. And
thus it is with many OF the great Republican
counties. The Republican vote in the camps
proved the unanimous numbers of the Repub-
| licans under arms, while the falling off of the
| vote at home, and the aggregate exactness OF
| the Democratic vote at the late and the elec-
tion for President, proves, too, that those who
| boast of the valor of the Democracy were cal
culating without their hosts.
All things considered, Pennsylvania is as
strongly Republican to-day as she was when
coin. The men who were elected on Union
| principles, had confidence reposed in them,
not because they were Democrats, but as q
nion men they were only successful, and be-
| icy which has so iuvigorated the federal ad
miuistration in its struggle to crush rebellion
| and the result of another election will
| prove, when the issues are more fairly present
of Pennsylvania are sound on every principle
involved in the Republican platform.
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