Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-11-07
THE ELEcrIoN.

Iuesday-the day OF election-dawned
amid cloudless sky and cool, bracing at
nosphere; the very best kind of day for
the performance of the political labor that
awaited the voting population of the State.
More desirable weather could not have been
selected, if the choosing of it had been left
to those most interested in having clear,
ine, cool day.
Al nine o'clock in the morning the polls
\ opened, and the voting commenced with ami
nation and spirit the Union men working
like beavers, and the secesh party sneakng
hther and thither in search of victims of
their lying, frauds, and folles, Comparative
quiet prevailed until about noon or later,
when secesh became turbulent and noisy,
whereupon the Union men reproyed and in
some instances mildly chastised the often
ders In the fourth ward however, their
iusolence and frequent aggressions became
50 intolerable that file of soldiers was
brought to the window in order to afford the
limd and aged an opportunity to deposit
their ballots unawed and unharmed The
glittering bayonets Of the troops soon re
stored order, and the poor seceshers crept
into their holes tame as weaned Kittens
Thereafter all went on well until five o'clock,
when the polls closed. The result of the
election will be found in our columns to-day
as full as it is possible To give them up 10
the time of going to press.
From these returns we gather that the
Union candidate, WILLIAM CANNON, has been
elected Governor by small majority aud
that our estimabe friend and faithful Repre-
sentative, Hon. GEORGE p. FISHER, has prob
ably been defeated for Congress by less than
twenty votes. When we reflect upon the
multitude Of stories and talsehoods that were
put in circulation against him by the seces-
sion party and believed by the creduous,
our only wonder is that Mr.. FISHER was not
totally annihilated in the canvas The
+ causes operating against our success We're
E locotoco lies =
l. That fthe people would vote the demo
cratic ticket, Mr.. Lincoln had promised tc
A withdraw his Proclamation and end the war
e ,. That if the Proclamation were not
f Withdrawn, the slaves of the South would d,
Z sent North to take the places of the whit,
J. laborers. Many fools believed this.
5 3, That taxes would be reduced, and pri
Q ces instantly brought down to their ordinar,
& low figures
, Added to these, the depressing effect o
d the want of energy in the prosecution of til,
h war; the disastrous result of the Octobe
d elections the treachery Of pretended friend.
e and the utter incomprehensbility OF the mo
l. tive of the Administration in keeping an AT
y my of half a million of men encamped ava
from their homes, idle, contrary 10 their owt
patriotic desires to fight the enemy and set
v tie the war all combined to make success
~ an uphill business in Delaware. Notwith
1t standing it all, however, we have rescued til
- State from rebel rule, and elected firm, un
!, conditional Union man Governor for III
a., next four years.
!, And now that the fall elections are owe
= aud disaster and defeat have marked tbei
: progress, will the authorities at Washingto
- take heed and act promptly, energeticall,
decidedly, or will it require the shock of a
Nc earthquake to set the national power in ru
st and speedy motion? We have seen boy
il accelerate the speed of d creeping turtl
is by placing coal OF fire on its back "
ry hope the same scorching process will not h
le doomed necessary to arouse the Goyermer
se fully to its work Of activity.