North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-04
The State Elections


has resulted in the triumph of the abolition
candidate, Andrew G., Curtin, by about fifteen
thousand majority. 1T is useless TO specu-
late upon the causes which have led to the
defeat of the Democratic candidate: 1t is on
Iy necessary to examine the number of votes
cast in this State on Tuesday, October 18th,
1863, to ascertain the cause. That George
w. Woodward had large majority of the
legal votes cast in this State for Governor,
no honest man can for a moment doubt
But the ques ton will be asked why he was
not elected =? The reason why he was not
elected was because the Abolition Admins
tration at Washington and its mnions in
this State adopted an extensive system of
colonization, by which they were enabled to
throw into Pennsylvania some forty or fifty
thousand men, who voted on the second
Tuesday of October, wi thout having the le-
gal qualification of voters. That was the
way in which the honest Democracy of
Pennsylvania was defeated. When election
officers and window committees resisted the
votes of non residents. their quams of con-
science were speedily silenced by an applca-
tion Of greenbacks, aud if that failed the pre-
tended voter was marched off to some other
election district where the consciences of
the election officers were fully abolitionized
hundred and twenty thousand. 1t is the
heaviest ever cast in the State. In 1860 it
was four hundred and ninety-two thousand,
twenty eight thousand less than that cast al
the last election, and yet it is positively as
serted that Pennsylvania has sent over two
hudred thousand soldiers to the war, the
most Of whom are still in the service
Whence came this great increase of votes
whenthe State was SO heavily depleted Of
its population to furnish soldiers for the
war? There can be but one answer to the
question. They must have come from 9TH
er States. 1t is not possible that so large
number Of legal voters should for period of
years, have failed to exercise the elective
franchise. Such proposition is absurd
The abolition party in 1862 poIled their full
party vote. Their defeat last year left them
little to hope for from the honest yeomanry
of Pennsylvania, and they knew that unless
they resorted to fraud and colonization they
had no earthly chance of carrying the State
election. The declaration that the admins
tration at Washington could not afford 10
lose Pennsylvania, is enough to satisfy any
one acquainted with the principal characters
of that administration, that they would not
scruple about the means to be employed
for that purpose. Millions of dollars were
expended for that purpose alone.
The Democratic party in Pennsylvania
never polled as farge vote as that cast for
George W. Woodward at the late guberna.
torial election. The large accessions to our
ranks of men who have herel ofore voted and
acted with the Republican party, were not
sufficient to overcome the large importation
of voters from other States, who were sent
here 20 stide the voice of the honest freemen
of Pennsylvania. But the same despotism
and tyranny which drove the honest, think
ing and reading portion of the Republican
party into the Democratic ranks, still exist,
and, BY this time next year, will have swell
ed the Democratic column to such gigantic
proportions that colonization and fraud will
neither be tolerated nor attempted. That
we will elect our President next year, we
have no more doubt of than wo have Of our
own existence.
"'Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are here;
But Error. wornded, writhes in pain,
And dies amidst its worshippers" "-PottsrMe
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