The Portland daily press., 1862-09-10
State OF Maine.
The Recent state Election.

The election of Monday affords some lessons
which it would be well if our friends would
remember While the dominant party, all I'M
conscious of danger, have trusted in the right
eousness of their cause, and waited for it to
take care of itself, they find the field badly in
vaded by the enemy, and some Of the trophies
supposed to be perfectly secure, actually borne
away from them in triumph. In York County
the Democrats appear to have elected their
ticket, while in this county the result is UNI
comfortably close, and the result of the Con-
gressional vote in the LIST District actually
trembes in the balance. In Cumberland
County Mr.. Goodwin has done better than in
his own county. In fact, each candidate seems
to have made the most Roadway in the others
county. The vote is so close that until the
official vote is known, it may be impossible
to tell whether Mr.. Goodwin or Col. Sweat is
the successful man. In other parts of the
State the Republican ticket seems to have pre-
vailed generally.
1t is obvious to casual observer why results
so unexpected have been arrived at The
three principal causes may be briefly alluded
to. for the information of parties in other parts
of the State.
LIST. The general apathy in relation to all
such matters as local politics, while imminent
dangers threaten the very foundations of the
Government. This has affected loyal men,
while those who would be glad to see the adj
ministration put down, though it be done by
JEFF Davis rebel army, have been paralyzed
by no such consideration. We do not intend
to intimate that all who voted the Democratic
ticket are Of this stripe, but we do mean to
say that all Of this stripe have voted that
ticket, and they are among the most active,
jealous and industrious workers in the State.
while men slept the enemy sowcd tares."
I'd. While the Republicans and those who
sympathize with them, have been at work for
the country, stimulating enlstments, encour-
aging war meetings, and not once naming par
titan matters and seldom thinking of them,
the Democrats, with no sympathy for the war,
with hostile intent against the administration,
end with too much sympathy for rebellion,
have been making all necessary preparation
for the election.
Sd. 1t is a notorious fact, that in all the
western part OF the State, more than three
quarters of the recruits under the past calls
for men nave been republicans. In Westbrook
we were told before election, that the excess
of republicans over democrats among the
soldiers sent forward, was more than the
republican majority in that town last year.
This is not a solitary case.
Democrats in York and Cumberland have,
to large extent, urged their friends to hold
off for draft, while voting large bounties to
encourage enlistments. The enlisted men
volunteers-are very largely republican, while
the democrats, as in Harpswell, Buxton, and
all over York County, have held back. But
we will not extend these remarks A full vote
would have shown a different result The
triumph of the opposition in the few instances
in which they have succeeded, will be a brief
one. The people now realize that eternal Wig
lance is the price of liberty.