Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-09
Notes on the Election,

| ASOeOS VA4 LAAC E1kSCt1 OMs A good deaf1s said about few of our sol diers being allowed toyote at the election. It's all right that denaocrms, who can't read, even an Isi,h paTer up-side,down. should vote, but il is "gseat outraee~ when one of our citizen soldiers offers to record his ballot. as he would
 his bullet. against the enemy in his rear. We heard Q wag-and not more of a wag than patriot-suggest to loud-mouthed democrat. who was declaiming against the right of the soldiers in the United States service to vote, that, in his opinion, . United States button on mans coat, was as good Il
 badge of his citizenship as eopperAead pin.
 Its all very wrong, ". know, for so many
 soldiers to como home to vote, and all vote the Black Republican" ticket. But we heard a
 man at the polls on Monday, who ,cas an out and-out "democrat" at the time of his enlist
 ment, say. as he deposited his vote, open to the eyes of ali men, That's the way democratic soldier votes!' And he want the only democratic soldier in this town and others,w Ao | voted for wv. A BucKIxGmAx.
 The "democrats" made all the breeze they dared. and got up one or two little 'scrimmages in soms towns in the State, over the soldiers voting. But they ''sung small.' In New Britais. Q number of soldiers, who had been aischarg ea through sickness. wounds, &c., and who had not intended voting, having heard that the eepperheads threatened to annihilate them if they should approach the polls, gath cred in company, some on crutcI,es, and some with bandaged wounds, and marched down to the polls, armed with ballot each, and deposi- ted their votes, ,Oithout molestation. "If," we heard soldier Say, If Tom Seymour is to be elected. and we are to have war here in Con- necticut, perhaps it would be just as we'll for some copperhead to open the ball now!" The ball didn't open:
 Complaint is made by the copperheads that the State was flooded by the Republicans with "green-backs." If that is SO, it couldn't have been very great flood, for it didn't reach up as high as these regions. Perhaps so me of the opposition can tell what sort of flood it was brought to bear on tn, SheriH's vote in Goshen Or if they can't, we can.
 We learn of Q patriot, who resides in Goshen, coming from Fairfax Court House, Virginia. where his son--a soldier in the army was lying sick, to vote the union ticket, and returning to his son the day after. Such men it was who saved the state on Monday, from the disgrace of afFiliating with treason.
 The Dems elected their rep-esen tatlve in Canaan hy four majority, in Salisbury by one, in Warren bv three or four, and others were elected by Q not much larger number. In Kent the vote on Representatives tied between the two candidates. All showing the impor- tance of one vose.
 Tn Kent, on Monday, there was tie, (so announced, an the ele,tion of their repre- sentative. On Tuesday, for some cause, un- known to us, the Union men let the election go by default The election will probably be contested.
 In Washington, where good news al. ways penetrates slowly, the copperhsads held . jubilee on Monday night over the supposed victory in their Senatorial district and the State. Next morning early we saw one or two of them up in Litch6eld, where they weren't rejoicing so much as they were. With Buckingham, Warren and Vessels elected, there wasn't m uch for them to rejoice ever.
 --17 votes were dep: sited, by mistake, in one ballot box at Litchfeld for Truman A. Warren, for Senator, which were intended for GEORGE DUDLEY. The error was nertifying to our friends here, but makes no difference in the grand result.