The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-28

The result of the elections in such States At
Wisconsin and Iowa, where provision was made
to take the vote of their soldiers absent in thu
army, and the party analysis of the vote wher
so taken, very clearly shOws how the result wal
obtained. 1t shows that among the absent sol
diers there were nearly three Republicans tt
one Democrat, who voted, and who if at home
would have voted thev respective party tickets
Nor is this statement probably strong enough
A great proportion of the former Democrat
among the soldiers, have, it is well known
changed their views, and instead of remaining
pro-slayery, lave become decided emancipation
lists, for the reason that during their experience
in the South, they have been brought to see
that slavery has been the black, accursed fJun-
| tain from which all our present national troub-
les have flowed and how would have most Of
these have been. likely to vote? But allowing
that none but the former Republicans among
the ldierG would have voted the Repub lcan
ticket at the recent elections, how, even on that
calculation, would the case have stood ? How
will take for Il sample? 1t has been estimated
that New York had, at her recent election,
about one huudrcd thousand voters in the army
Three-tourths Of these, admitting, which would
have been the case, that not single Democrat
had voted with them, would have not only
swept away Seymour ma ority, bat have given
his Republican opponent, Wadsworth, full fifty
thousand majority: and the calculation here
made will doubtless hold good OF every State
that has held elections this fail Thus 1t would
Eee:n TACT entirely domons;rablc, that but for
the absence OF he Republican voters in the
army, not one State would have been carried BY
the Democrats Now what sort Of triumol,
ls this! How the Democratic press can nut on
face to bols: Of it Is more than VIC Gun cor-
celye. i0r besides sweeping away all the boasted
majortles at blow, it discloses fac. anything
but crcdltabls to the Democratic party. 1t
brings cut the hitherto disputed fact, that three
iourths OF all our armies are Republicans, while
but one-lourth are Democrats, or, in other
words, while three Republicans have been found
ready to step forward to defend eur insulted
dag, but one Democrat s found with pride and
patriotism enoagh to respond to The call Of he
country at its greatest need II the Democrats
wish to boast of this, let them do 50. They are
welcome to al! the glory they ca n gain by it,
But it will be said, that could all tho soldiers
In the army have voted, the elections still show
loss in all, or nearly all the States that have
voted This probably is the truth. Thousands
of the Repu bhcans, no doubt, have deserted the
administration and voted the Democratic tick
cts. But it has been to no perceptjble extent,
from the causes alleged by the Democratic
presses. 1t has not been on account of the
emancipation measures of the administration
nor has it been. except in few isolated cases
on account of arrests, as unwarranted and fool
lsh as some OF these arrests have been. No. it
has been none ot these. No, for the Democrats
well know by this time, that the President
proclamation, contrary to all taeir predictions,
was well received among the Republicans II
well received in the army and even well received
in the loyal border States They know ALEC,
that, though an occasional blunder may have
been made IN arrestng for sympashlzers some
innocent men, where one guilty man has been
arrested, ten ought to have been.
No, none of these. The secret is on the sur
face The result has been caused By the mis-
cradle, vacillating, do-llttle policy o. the Pres
ident aud his Cabinet, for the worse than mega
tive manner IN which they have conducted the
war, the two years pas. and even up to the
tlmeot the iAli elections, retaining pro-slayery,
incompetent and do-lttIc generals 10 the field.
Let the administration, then. profit by the les
son they have fereiyed--turn over an entire new
leaf prosecute the war with "a vigoY and intel
ligence commensurate to the great and holy
work before them. Let them do this. and our
word for it, we shall hear but little more 0,
Democratic victories.