The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-11-16
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Nor, 9.
The Election Yesterday

1t would be undertaking its importance
even to institute Il comparison between the
election held yesterday and any other since
the foundation OF the Government. Its
importance is not greater and more marked,
however, than were the extraordinary and
disreputable means employed to carry it by
the men in Office Heretofore corruption,
fraud and villainy have been used to some
extent in our elections, but in the one Just
past they were reduced to complete and
organized system.
Louis Napoleon was not more determined
to convert the French Republic into an i'm
pclial throne for himself and his descend
ants, than those i'll power in this country
we're to perpetuate their dynasty and we
say it solenlnly he was not more unscrupu-
lous in the cxertons which he made to that
end. If the eectrive franchise has not been
made as complete Il lnockery as in France, it
has not been the fault of Abraham Lincoln
and lis advisers.
In Great Britain the retainers and Office
holders OF the Crown are allowed to vote !;
million of persons, civil and military, was
used by the Cabinet at Washington for that
purpose. In the last days of the Roman
Empire, when degeneration and degradation
had oyertaken it, the armies were not more
directly and unblushingly employed to des
ignate the person who should be clothed in
thei imperial purple, than they have been by
Abraham Lincoln, so far as it was possible
for fraud, interest and force to accomplish it,
But never i'll France or in ancient Rome
did monarch have such vast means Of cor
ruption at his disposal, or such an over
whclming exhibition of physical power at
his command. No such test has ever be-
fore been applied to republican institutions
in this country, and if they survive the
shock, it will be q Proyidential dispensation
The election has passed into history, and
those who have beon engaged in it will an
swer in the future to it as an arbitrator, and
to their own conscience for its results, what
ever they may be.
The friends of General Mcclellan and
those desirious of change in the Admins
tration have nothing toreproach themselves
with but can covet the most rigid scrutiny
Of time. They have nobly strove to stem
the tide of official corruption and prohigacy.
They have energctically thrown themselves
into the breach to save this last fabric of
republican liberty from being entirely over
thrown. They have bid defiance to the
gauntleted hand of force, and they have been
proof against the seductions of interest
They have resisted the tide of fanaticism,
and amid obloquy, denunciation and re-
! proach that future generations will hardly
| be able to appreciate, they have nobly dis
charged their duty as treemen, and cast en-
| lghtened ballots for the preservation of lib
erty and the restoration Of peace and pros
perity to the land. All honor to this brave
and noble army-more than million and a
half strong-which in the day Of its extrem-
ity made final rally for the preservation of
| the Government.
They have well comprehended the nature
Of this struggle, and they saw in it results
and consequences so infinitely momcntous as
to hush all partisan feeling in their dread
solitude for the common future of all our
countrymcn. Too many, alas! have not
seen it in that light, and have voted as if it
were an old-fashioned contest between rival
parties for the possession of the Govern
ment, in which they must follow the bent OF
their old iHlinations. .',
This morning, the 9th of November,
marks the beginning OF a new era. The
clicks Of the telegraph last night indicated
the future destiny of this country as COM
pletely as the hand on sun-dial point to
the time of the day. Those clicks register.
ed the decrees of fate, which, whatever
their consequences, are now unalterable and
and irrevocabe. There have been many
great days in our history, but they all fade
into insignihcance compared to this event.
ful morning, which brings with it events not
only affecting the lives and fortunes of us
all, but will reach far into the future of oul
descendants. The word has been spoken
the eternal die has been cast for ages tc
come. .tg-tt