The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-16
The Election


While Pigeon Township failed to poll as
many votes by 800 as we're cast in 1860, j
s the country townships of German Arm,
strong, Knight and Perry gave as large
vote as they did in that year This, too, az
ter furnishing about SO per cent. of their
voters forsthe army, shows remarkable
increase. il. the population Of these town
Ships AS many anticipated, the Union
ticket met with an overwhelming defeat
The average Hbutternutn majority will
exceed 500 votes. Judge Law, we be-
lieve runs behind his ticket in every
precinct in the county While, Of course,
he must be grati6ed al his handsome ma
iorities, it mustbe little notifying to
g find that he runs behind his ticket in his
own county.
We read but one lesson from the vote
in Vanderburgh county, and that is that
majority of the voters desire peace at
any price-eyen the sacrifice OF the uni
ty Of the government, We may be mis-
taken in this, butwe think not. There
will be many and various reasons assign
ed for the Union defeat, but after they
are all analysed they will be found
to center the oneabsorbing desire for
peace. The DESIGNS Of he 8th-ofJanuary
leaders were plainly set before the peo-
pie. The scheme for re-dividing the
country, and attaching the northwest
to the So thern Confederacy, we have
Denounced in terms betting the infa-
nous character Of he undertaking. We
can only regard the vote, therefore, as IN
endorsement Of lhat treacherous and
traitorous design
The taxes" outrageous taxes was
the great weapon Of our adversaries; and
wehave no hesitation in saying they WELD
EDIT skillfuly aud successfully. They
made the farmers believe that everything
they had was taxed; that they would be
compelled to eat taxed yictuals, on taxed
plates, with taxed knives and forks; that
their produce don tbring half what it did
during the Democratic Administration,
and that restoration Of that party to
power would restore the old prosperity;
that th's' money they h4i was decreasing
% in value, and soon itwould-in the ele-
pc CANT language Of Mr. Whittlesey--be-
come as worthless as tie old Continental
currency, of which it ,ook hatful to.
lay dinner. .+-s
,,. We endeavored to combat these errors
and tricks of demagogues, but, in large
portion of the county our paper has no
circulation, and our refutation of their
falsehoods and ISLANDERS failed to reach
the people in those townships. We have
the proud satisfaction Of knowing that in
those townships where we had hearing
where we could address the intelli-
gence and patriotism Of the people-the
Union ticket was most nobly sustained
Pigeon, Scott, Center, and Union stood
firm amid the general .desertion, and
demonstrated their attachment to the
Government under-whch- they have SO
wonderfully prospered, in this its hour of
gloom. ~
IL was duluolliS W WANASoo sAOAAO W
manifested by the gentlemen who have
asserted all oyer the county that they
were the true friends of the volunteers,
at the attempt of some soldiers who
claimed this as their place of residence,
to vote, Every "blue coat, was prompt
ly challenged, and in some cases the
vote refused, even when the voter desired
to swear it in. TWAS all well enough to
have all the river men who claim resi-
dence. nowhere in particular to vote, but
when it came to volunteer who had
fought in defense of his country, these
patriotic gentlemen seemed to be in a
fever of apprehension tits to be hoped
the boys whom these "butternuts con.
slider unworthy Of a vote, will return to
their homes before another election, SO
that they can give the gentlemen a taste
oftheir opinion.
In another place we publish returns up
to the hour Of going TO press. They come
In quite slowly. - s.