The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-15
TEE FARMERS, VOTE

When the full returns of our late election shall
have been officially made, it will be seen that tho
farmers have voted for Lincoln and Johnson
with unanimity Unprecedented In any resolute
contest The gains in this State for Mcclellan
over the Fusion vote of 1860 have all been effected
in the cities and villages where Irish immigrants
most do cOngregate, and where their votes,
whether they be naturalized or not, come in
freely. Not only has Mr.. LincolN received more
votes in 1864 than he did in 1860, but we are con-
yiTced that q larger proportion Of our native
born citizens voted for him.
Ii is difficult for any one to name q dozen New
Workers who voted the Republican ticket in 1860
who did not vote the Union ticket last week /;
while those who voted against Lincoln in 1850
but for him in 1864, may be enumerated by hun
dreds. We know an election district in West
chester county wherein Mr.. Lincoln gains
twenty. five votes, in good part by conversions,
but these gains were balanced by twenty six
natuTalizntOnS, maihly of labOrers in quarry,
al Of whom voted Of course for Mcclellan. We
have already instanced the township of Clinton,
on tie st. Lawrence, newly settled with Irish
men, and of course largely Mcclellan, but OF
whose sixteen native voters fifteen voted for
Lincoln.
1t is like this throughout. In Pennsylvania
the Mcclellan vote is enormously sWelcd by tho
mining counties-Luzerne, Schuylkl, Berks,
Columbia, Wayne, &c. &c.-uinetenths Of the
miners being foreign. born; apart from these, the
Lincoln majority il Oycrwhcmiug-We think not
less than one hundred thousand in the aggregate
vote Of the State So this State, had the right of
Suffrage been restricted to natives, would have
given our President more than one hundred thou
sand majority; while New Jersey and Delaware
would both have supported him.
We state these facts in no spirit of hostility to
adopted citizens. We wage no war upon their
rights and franchises. We intend no mpeach-
ment OF their integrity or their patriotism. They
vote as they see iit; if they more clearly, we
do not doubt they would vote more benei-
Gently. We only insisl that due weight be given
to the substantial unanimity OF our American
born voters in uphO1ng their Government We
ask that diplOmatists and writers for foreign
journals shall note the essential facts, and not
report US as almost equally divided on the main
question, because Pat casts his YO,e )r yOtes) on
the side which he Is told is hostile to "naygurs,'
and struggling to roll back II threatened inunda-
ton of fee black labor from The South.
We do not believe q quarter of the descendants
of tue men who carried our country trumphan,ly
Though horroyolutiOn are now found in the ranks
of The opposition.
The farmers were told by the opposition writer's
and speakers that our pnbliG debt is already of
| appalling amount and is still running up with
| tTi2Ettul yeOcity-that every dollar Of II IS
lien on all the real estate in the country,
and must ultimately be pad by it-thlt IL
would soon be equal 10 half the aggregate value
OF their farms, and ultimately 10 the entire value
that % new draft wOud surely be ordered
(GOYeIDor seymour said two drafts) viii b would
sweep their sons away - tue battlefield or bury
their farms beneath still lurther load Of local
debt tlat the war made no progress, and was
destined, If Lincoln we're reelected, to be inter
miuablc, etc. etc. Such were the considerations
urged upon our people 10 induce them TO vote for
Mcclellan, PendletOn, and Scy mour; the respOn @
| Ct those whose grlndtathers looked dOubtlessly
over the slight brcastwOTk ut Bunker Hill, or
| confronted Burgoyne at Saratoga, is given in the
| all but unbIOken and general overwhelming
| maioHtcs for Lincoln and Fenton throughout
| the rural districts of our State.
Some of our farmers had been beguiled into
| voting for Seymour two years ago in order TO
| stop the war" and had seen the short-sghted
! folly Of that resort. They now voted for Lincoln
and teutOn 10 indicate their firm resolve 10 carry
| on the war, if needful, until Il can be stopped
| with safely and with hOnOr-a course whereby
We feel confident that they have powerfully aided
! 10 bling it 10 as early as well as a hcnclccni
| conclusion. But, whether it may be closed
S,C CnCr or later, the yoomaury Of this So .te, and
OF nearly every State, are firmly resolved that l.
shall so close 70 insure the int gritty aud the
| perpeiuiy Of our Union.-N. y. Tribune ofHis
| morning,