Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-10-26
Election.

The election is now fully ascertalned
and the Democratic party have carried
the State by something in the neighbor-
| hood of two thousand on the home vote.
| here was vote against US last year of
| fifteen thousand and upwards. This is a
great change in one year. We will do a
good deal better for Mcclellan. The peo
pie know what they are about to do, they
have no local issues to disturb them,
nothing but the Presidential candidate to
vote for on the square.
Indeed we have done admirably at the
last election. when we consider the weight
we had to contend against The country
was flooded with money, offered to the
Democracy as brides. Money that the
| corrupt minions of Lincoln had wrung
| from the people themselves under pretence
of supporting the government, was offered
back them in part rs bribes. Our own
man Barker dealt it out with loose hand
if our information be correct 1t appears
he could not secure the vote of the dis
trict, (althoueh he had upwards of a
thousand votes TO start on from last years
| vote,) If he had all the money that passed
through the delicate fingers of those la
| dies of easy virtue who worked in Chase's
establishment, and were clothed like the
lilies of the field, and toiled not, neither
did they spin. The people of this con-
gressional district did themselves inmor-
tai honor.
Our County did nobly, particularly
where they had to pass through 4 file of
soldiers to 90 to the polls. We were told,
that in Carroltown soldiers planted them
selves on each side of fhe window to
watch the voters as they came up, and
another had the impuderce to 90 into the
elcctionro room and pore-ovcr the assess
ment and order the board to call out the
names SO as they would distinctly hear
them. He was politely ordered to leave
the room, and he had good sense enough
TO do so. The poor soldiers are not to
blame, it is those minions who manipu-
late them and who are lowering around
tie body polite, like leprosy ON the hu-
man frame, and are not only nauseous to
the sight but enemies to their country and
the human race. When soldiers appear
before the polls, the Act of Assembly
ought to be reod to them telling them of
the ilegaiity Of it. We take it that there
Is some law i'll Pennsylvania yet, if they
would not decently retire from the election
ground, then let the Sheriff be called on,
and let him raise posse which he has
authority to do, should it take every man
IN the County, and put them where they
ought to be. Should they refuse, then
the ball might open. The election ground
is no place to hunt conscripts, and the
sooner 1t is known 10 the public the better.
1t there are deserters in the neiahbor
hood, an honest voter has no RIGHT TO he
put in bodily fear when he is going to ex-
ercise the right of suffrage There are
bad men in the country now, that wouId
not care how many soldiers or citizens
would be killed, provided they attained
their own aggrandisement. Thev are
foolish for it. 1t may be good sport for
them while they are hunting the lion. but
when the lion begins to hunt them it Is
then not such good sport
1t was some of the ignorant Bu,oes of
the undercrust that got the soldier to at
tend on the election ground in defiance of
the laws Of Pennsylvania, none of the
intelligent men would advise such thing.
and thus produce an uncalled for collision
at the present time. Through this opera
ton they have succeeded in numbering
two men in Blair county, the particulars
of which we are unable to tell, but we
are becoming familiar with crimes of all
grades during this God d-fearing administra-
ton of Abraham Lincoln
sS Don't forget to see all the careless
and doubtful and brinu them ont to tho