Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-10-31
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BELLOWS FALLS, ocT. 81, 1862.
The E.ectlons Next Meek.


on Tuesday next They are the most i'm.
portant because in some of them govern,
or and State officers are TO be chosen, along
with members Of Congress, Legislature, &c
If, therefore. the Union ticket is defeated
in those States which elect governor, and
State administration chosen which shall
refuse to support the Government, we may
reasonably look upon such result as the
darkest hour Of the country. We do moi
apprehend any such result. SO far the
elections this year, do not forhode any such
disaster. for while several so-caled demo.
Gratis were elected to Congress in October
tits highly gratifying to know that very
few of them win act against the Admins
sration, in its efforts to subdue the rebellion.
While Vallandigham has been defeated in
Ohio, Biddle of Pennsylvania, another Of
the same secesh stripe is also defeated.
In Massachusetts,, the campaign is some
what animated, but there seems hardly a
doubt Of the reelection Of the present State
administration. 1t is worthy of notice that
the secesh democracy have TO stand aside
almost entirely, in their coalition with
Boston funkyism, or the Peoples party, as
It is called, who furnish all the candidates.
The uneasy old fogies of Boston, in their
desperation TO defeat Sumner and Andrew,
have actually nominated men of precisely
the same stamp of those whom they wish
TO defeat. For instance, Charles Francis
Adams, an old Free Soier and co-laborer
of Sumner, is nominated for L. S. Senator
against the later and ex-Gov Clifford,
Charles r. Train, and Col. Kinks have all
received nominations for Congress at The
hands of this same faction, and all have de-
'clined, and at last accounts the old Boston
missionaries were still cropping about for
candidates to receive their conservative
votes next Tuesday. Our readers can there
fore see tle kind Of opposition we have in
Massachusetts, where the secesh democracy
have to stand back and swallow good Union
men, when they can find one willing TO take
their votes. II is also worthy of note that
the Springfield Republican, very strong
'opposer of the reelection of Mr. Sumner,
says that it is of no use to try to elect
man g who is any less anti-slavery than Mr.. |
SUMNER This, to US, seems to be an ex-
cecdipgly nice distinction without differ
ence, and like splitting off the south side
of hair. An anti-Sumuer meeting was
held last week in Springfield, but it was
not till they received twelve car loads of
from Boston, that they had any
audience. The old Bay State will be all ,
right, and there is no use in wasting words
about her. ,
4 In New York the case is somewhat dir
fsreut. Seymour Is more On less in sympa-
thy with the traitors, and his most promi-
nent supporters are traitors Of the most I'M
stamp, among whom are Ben. and |
Fernando Wood who are both running for |
Congress. Ben. is a member now, and
Fernando has the strongest secesh district
an the loyal States, and while we must of
course expect the election of both, it will
be no actual gain to the secesh strength in
Congress. Fernando, on the 9th of JAM,
1861, as mayor of New York city, sent
message to the Common Council, recon-
amending the secession Of that city from
the State; and a few days after, when
the police Of the city had seized lot
of arms consigned to the State Of
Georgia, to be used in the rebellion to de-
'stroy the Government, this same Fernando
Wood denounced the act as an courage"
and teiegraphed to his fellow traitor, Rob-
ert Toombs, apologizing for 1t, and said if
he had the power he "would summariy
punish the authors OF this illegal and I'M
-justifable seizure of private property
Such is the character of the secesh de-
mocracy of New York In these same dis
tricts there is also Union democracy who
ARE supported by the republicans, and we
trust that in some of the districts of the
city they will succeed. In the country, the
Union democrats and republicans will doubt
less prevail, in most Of the districts. The
election of Seymour will greatly encourage
nhe rebels both North and South. and the
preservation Of the Union will be matter
sof doubt indeed.
uhe following from The Richmond En-
qmrer, is decidedly significant, and shows
whom the traitors consider their friends
There is, however, evidently in the
West, and particularly in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. strong opposition to the present
war upon the South. The tone of the press
in those States, the public meetings and the
Democratic Conventions, all prove this con.
sclusively. This feeling does not display
itself as boldly opposed TO the war per Sc
bat assumes The form Of opposition TO aboli.
stionssus, coercion, and suBugotioR. II would
not be safe TO exhibit it otherwise, for il
that event The individuals giving expression
TO il would soon find themselves incareerate6
within the walls Of some Yankee Bastile
and their opposition thus speedily and eff
fectually crushed out. But 6y professia,
.3epofioa TO he Union, Me Constellation, dnt
the Administration of Abraham Lincoln