The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-10-24
The Ootober Elections.

! Men cannot be campaigning in Virginia
and Kentucky, and voting in Pennsylva-
MIA aud Ohio at the same .time--a; least
our men cannot. Last year the Penn.
sylvania voters who were in camp on the
Potomac as Volunteers in the Union ar.
mics voted Tor State officers, and the re-
suit was over Eleven Thousand for the
"People's Union" 10 less han -Four Thou
sand for the democrats" ticket. There
are now at least Eighty Thousand legal
voters from that State absent as Volun-
teers in the Union armies, and the recent
! preporderance of Volunteering from the
"People's Union" ranks over that from
the "Democra,ic," has been far greater
than last year. OF course we suffer in
the vote-that was inevitable. Had those
! Volunteers voted on Tuesday, we should
/ have had nearly unanimous peoples
/ Union" delegation in The next Congress !;
now we shall have but about half a one
IL Ono, the result is still more ad.
verse for there the Democratic leaders,
headed by Vallandigham. have all hat
universally kept their followers from en-
listing. Ia all their harangues, they have
stgmalized the War for the Union as a
"nigger war" an "Aboli;lon war;" &C.,
DC, and have made proGigicus outcry
against the prospective influx of negroes
into the Ssale in consequence of the South
ern convulsion. OF the Sixty Thousand
| Voters from that State now absent as I'm
ion Volunteers, we doubt that Ten Thou
sand would have voted for Yallandigham
and his conpeers. or caurse, we suffer
in the results of the election, but such a
triumph will prove an embarrassment and
a damage TO those who won it. Be pa
tient and all will come right.
The Illinois Volunteers absent in the
War last Spring voted on the question Of
raiifying or rejecting the New Constitu.
;lon made last Winter for that State by
strongly Democratic Convention and
very generally sustained by the party as
a party measure The vote Of the Vol
uniecrs was six or seven against it to one
Tor it.
The Legislature of Wisconsin in Extra
Session last Summer made provision for
taking the vote Of her Volunteers absent
at the Seat OF War, though the Democrat
~ ui'hoiity III that btSlSlhluIe very gen
orally opposed it. The result will show at
least three votes for the Union War tick
cts to one against 'hem. And so in every
Free State that provides for taking the
vote OF lis Volunteers who have gone to
the War.
We who remain at home must bear in
mind that there is work to be done here as
we'll rs at the front We must do our ut.
most to sustain the cause for which our
brethren are Offering up their lvos. Every
election carried by tho compatriots of Val.
landgham and Bon Wood will be under
stood by tho Rebels as carried in their be-
halt--as an encouragement to hold out a
little longer and :hey can dictate terms to
the Government and break up the Union.
No matter what tho voters mean--this is
what the Rcbes will understand. They knO,o
Vallandigham. Ben Wood, &C., are their
friends and mean that they shall triumph (;
and they logically conclude that the party
which sustains such men and does its best to
roeloct them must share ther sentiment
and sympnthios. This docs wrong 10 many
Democrats who still cling to their party or.
gan'Zation. but not to the managers of that
organization. If they didn't sympathizo
with tho Rebels they would not present
candidates who do. ~ y Tribune.