Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-04-14
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1861,
ABRAHA M LINCOLN,
Of Illinois.
Subject to the Decision Of a National
Union Convention.
The Election.

Now, that the din Of conflict has ceased
and the smoke Of battlc cleared of, we
may survey the field and weigh the re-
suits, for they teach. q lesson which VIC
may well ponder and reflect upon to our
profit.
The vote is, on the whole unexpectedly
large, for though the day was fine over
head; in all the country districts the
clash and snow and mud were intolerable.
In the mountain it wasa splendid sugar
day" and that is business which admits
of no triaing or waste Of time Tho
season of the year, too, was unusual foi
elections, and we do not doubt that many
voters in remote sections Of tic county
hardly believed that an important lcga
election could DO held in the month O
April. The canvass had been spiccd Will
more than usual falschood, SANDER ant
misrepresentation. Many people were
.porplcxed at the attitude assumed BY tn,
principal promoters Of the anti-Convcn.
ton ticket, calling themselves "Chton'
men. Perhaps some Of them had been
known, formerly. as Union mon, at least
on their own prctepces, for they had can
yassed the county and been elected tC
Office as Union men. In orr judgment,
these men have forever forfeited all right
10 claim that honorable designation. and
We shall be much mistaken if the people
do not hereafter ratify that Judgment,
unless they shall sincerely repent, and
do works meet for repentance.
The people of Allcgany have won this
victory without the aid, and against the
efforts, of almost all the o-called lending
mon in the county. Almost every mem
Der of the Bar, and good share Of the
magstracy, WAS actively against them
The Clerk of the Circuit Court was the
most active and laborious opponent of the
Convention, and the most abusive Of our
caus, and candidates Of all. The nare
and influence Of the last two sheriiIs were
against us, if not their personal eyortions.
For long time past, in fact, the Court
House of the county has been notorious
for persistent and sustained faut-Gnding
with the Government; abuse of the Pre-
gident of the United States, and ageneral
t'slavalty Of tone and sentiments as
painful to the true Union men of the
county, as it Vas pleasing TO the seces-
sion hubttncs of the place. The influence
Of the civil officers Of the United States
in the county, with some few most honor
able exceptions, was either actively hos
tile to us or dtgnifedly passive. If, in
the late keen struggle, we derived any
aid or assistance, from some of the highest
paid United States functionaries among
US, beyond their silent vote, We do not
know it, No words of ours can do JUS
tee to the estimate we place upon the
loyalty. the patriotism, aud the devotion
OF our gallant soldiers in the Home Br-
gade, aud such as were entitled to suf-
fragc in all other regiments AL
most to man they voted for that cause
q. the ballot-box, for which they peril
tLeir lives in the field There was no
doubt in their minds as to which was the
Union ticket, nor were they deceived
by base appeals to the lowest prejudices
about negro equality"
Let then the free men of .Allegany be
proud of their victory. for it is theirs
alone. The time will come when those
who have now tried to oppose the peo-
pies will-or, fearing that the emancipa-
ton sentiment was not in majority,
have stood aloof during the contest-will
pretend that they have always been
Emancipationists. Let the people mark
them.