East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-10-19
Tho "Election-The Farce.

IN ordinary pafiance,i ''tne cleo
I tions'' in the great States Of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana, according to
later and fuller returns, have gone de-
cidedly adverse to the Democracy
But in the TRUE SENSE Of tho term
Election no elections have taken
| place. Tho word election" means
choice, the right, the power, the act of
choosing. An election by THE PEOPLE,
ihplios that they peesoss and fieeiy
exercise those attributes and functions.
And in this sense we hold that there
has been no election :---further, that
there will be no election ON the Sth of
November. The fact Is understood by
Mr. Lincoln's leading pnrtisans just
as well as by us, and IN tho same sense
For instance, Mr.. Raymond, the chair
man Of Mr.. Lincon's National Com
mittee, in the course of on article lee.
turing the people opposed to Mr.. Lin
coins civil policy, rather inadvertent-
ly said n,t
"They appear % hGvc rery lille idea of What
the CsclmandOE in Chief of the Army and Ma
Wy can do Il man " firm and res0igte trW
ieih milton u men M arms 10 sspI vt him,
CAN DO PRETTY MUCH WHAT iiB PLEA
SES' THEY HAVE TO LEARN THAT Pa
PER CONSTITUTIONS, HOWEVER C0NVE-
NlENT THEY MAY Be CAN BE AMEND
ED WHEN NECESSARY, OR LAID ASIDE
ALToGETHER
And Horace Greeley, tho head Of
Mr.. Lincoln's Electoral Ticket in this
State, said; a sgt i.
"in time OF great public peril IKE the present
IL seems necessary o. wink nt Ofcial Acts Of Ar
baraiy PoSer which would mol be ead4lrsd for a
moment in state Of peace. Ez5- We
are iiriHg under regime, not IF Lar, but Of
Eorce.-Eau Ia War rHE LAW ~ SILENT, is the
gist OF avery old maxim" ~
There is complete admission Of
the truth of our proposition--that
there has been, and i'll November will
be no ELrcrIoY in tho only truc and
proper sense of that term If we are
as we assuredly are, and as Mr.. Linz
colu's head Eleetor voluntarily and
distinctly aiiirms, ---if 1--WE are living
Under regime not of Law. but of
Force" an Election in the true sense,
an Election such as "Law" contem.
plates, t,t,saOt taisrlacs ~ any pOsS,bih-
ty. sidilel 'dgie.f 10 ~ pfH
It is the Claw" and only the
"Law" that provides for ON Election.
And Mr.. Greeley says 'tho Law is ST.
lent" eve are liying not under a reg
ime of Law ;"."wrare living under a
regime Of Force" Does "Force"
provide For any olectionp Does
aForce' mean or imply choice, free
viii, or the right or privilege ofchoos-
ing ? No indeed; it implies the ex-
act opposite of all this. 1t implies
"Oficial Acts of Arbitrary Power"
| Just what we have become in some
degree accustomed to wink at" An
ELECTION" indeed
Our citizens whose memory Of pub
lie events dates back dozen years,
viii remomber how tho ELECTION" of
louis Napoleon to tho Imperial
throne by Universal Suffrage was rid
iculed, satirized aud denounced as an
unmitigated fraud 10y tho whole
American press and people. There
was no division of sentiment or ex-
preston on the subject from one ond
Of our country to the other--every-
body speaking IF it as a farce and a
fraud, DIR. Francis Heber, eminent
Republican authority, he being now
O strong partisan supporter of Mr..
1 lincoln, spoke Of Louis Napoleon
ELECTION" thus: fae .f-'ai''
"votcs without liberty Of the pres have No
MeASiSe; votes without liberty Of the press and
with q VAST STANDING ARMY ITSELF POSSESSING
THE RIGHT TO yorE, and considering II above all
law, HAVE SINISTER MEASISc votes without
an unshaclslcd press, with such on army, and
4 wIth compact body Of officials whose number
with those directly depending upon them or up.
on government contractA, amounts 90 nearly a
miiioh, have no meaning whether he who APP
reals'tpTHe rtor In says that be leaves tho tate
of France IN the hands Of the people OF not"
I Our Republican friends should pom
der we'll this pregnant sentence. They