Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
The Election News.

The Election News.
The returns from New York indicate
that the State has followed in the wake of
Penusylvauia, Ohio, Indiana aud several
other States and gone democratic. Sey.
mour is elected Governor over Wadsworth
and both the Woods are elected to Con-
gress. The result is as bad as it well could
be aud we need not tell our readers that
We deplOre it greatly. 1t is but poor salts
faction for US to know that so many thou
sands of the earnest friends of the Govern
ment were away at the war and that SO
many thousands who are not its friends
staid behind to vote against it. While
this is the fact and while proportionally it
explains the untOward result, yet it is not
the whole key to the vote. 1t is not to be
denied that the determination in the minds
of thousands of men was to cast a vote of
ceusure on the government for what they
regarded as its imbsciIity aud instability
of purpose and effort in putting down this
rebellion. Such was the case not only in
New York but in the other States. Aud
while it is true that large number voted
against the government who never were its
friends since this war commenced, and who
do not wish for the success of the national
arms, yet it is just as true that tens of
thousands who were and are its friends,
and who do hope for the success of our
arms, voted their want of confidence in the
present administration of the government
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This view appears to us as the only ra-
tiOnal explanation OF the result. Com
mon charity will not allow us to think 9TH
erwise. How could it be that Il people who
so lately declared their disgust with the
Democratic party as administered by Blu
chanan and Floyd and Cobb. should turn
about and fraternize again with many of
the former leaders under those men unless
it was simply as choice between what
they regarded as two evils. Most undoubted.
~ the vote cast was In thousands of hon
est instances intended as an indignant re-
buke to the Government for its yacilIation
and mismanagement. 1t is proofof the i'm
patience and dissatisfaction which has
seized upon the public mind, and now
that the Administration is stripped
of its original plethora of populari-
ty aud stands rebuked before the world,
we hope thatthe day of indecision aud de-
lay is past 1t is reduced now to its own.
merits and has no redundant buoys TO sus-
tain it. The people demand action and less
6ne talk. The Presidents conceded hon.
esty-the Secretary of States diplomatic
ability-Secretary Cbase's acknowledged
fnesse are all well enough in their way,
bnt as offsets to the want of practical re.
suits, they are played out in the estimation
Of the people. The people recognize that
all these fue points have notput down the
rebellion aud they are tired oil hearing
them urged. as sedatiVeS to their anxiety
The administration has got to get NO and
shake itselE-leaye off pettifYing its time
with the quArrels of small fry Generals and
still smaller fry contractors aud place seek
ers, aud go to work and do something. It
has one more session of Congress to go on
and that's all. And that is enough lift can
do anything, and more than enough lift can
not. Justice, Judgment and equity have
got to be dealt out with vigorous and I'M
spating hand against all sorts of incapaci-
ty, and NO more lives are to be fooled away
In order that some fool may continue to
wear single or double stars. The record of
the army has sicksned the people, and no
wonder. 1t has been enough to revolt
saints. Money and blood have been flow
ing like water. and nothing to show for it
but magnificent preparations. We are only
barely prepared on the Potomac and not
yet prepared on the Southern coast. Two
years are almost gone aud when will We be
prepared cry the people in these late cleo
lions. Never, thsy::answer, five keep on
doing as VIC have done. Therefore we
want it understood at Washington that We
are tired of the resultless programme which
has been pursued.
This is our Judgment of the meaning Of
the late elections as it regards thousands Of
votes. We deplOre the state of the public
mind. We would to God that loyal men
could abstain from casting votes that are
counted along with disloyal ballots and
that give moral encouragement TO rebellion. |
But as We cannot effect such discrlmina-
ton the next best thing is for US to appeal
to the Government to learn wisdom both
from its friends and Its enemies in the late
elections, and take away anxiety and des-
pondeuey from the one and opportunity
from the other, by achisHing results worthy
of the great powers entrusted TO it.