Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-11-08
After Election.

The election is over The result is as
yet. of course unknown. The vote, we
presume, is unusually small throughout
the State, which woald indicate ut least
reduced Union majority, for II has ever
been the case that the democrats are
more ready to attend elections than any
other class Such has ever been the per
lection of their party drill that Il but re-
qaires notice from their leaders to call
out their full strength upon any occasion.
The campaign just passed has been the
most quiet one for many years. In many
localities hardly sufficient has been said
to remind the people Of the time of the
election, except by private orders sent
out by our copperhead friends TO their
supporters to be on hand to work for the
cause on that day. Our opponents have
not been idle. and we should not be at all
surprised if the result of their efforts
showed itself in the canvass Of the votes.
The Union party has put forth much less
effort than usual to secure the success Of
their ticket Some Of the leading papers
OF the different localities, instead of throw
ing their influence in favor of the Uuion
cause, have expended their efforts in un-
cllled for attacks upon Judge Doolittle
and the resolutions Of the Union Conven-
ton The Milwaukee Sentinel in partic-
ular. has devoted its best energies in this
direction The only political document
we have seen during the campaign is
series Of letters that originated in the
Sentinel ana were afterwards put in
pamx hlet form and scattered over the
State, addressed to Judge Doolittle, and
well calculated whether so intended or
mott to aid tho cause Of the copperhead
party more than 70 secure votes for the
Union ticket If the Union candidates
are elected by anything like the usual
maiorities III this State, it viii he attrihu-
table much more to the firm conviction of
the Justice of the cause, in the minds Of
the people, than to the influence Of the
course pursued by several Of the Union
editors and professei Union men in many
portion. Of the State.
TIE question Of negro suffrage has
been seized upon as hobby by some who
have appeared TO possess no other politi>
cal capital upon which to manifest their
zeal and one would suppose from their
efforts that they believed the salvation oC
the American Union depended entirely
unon the question Of giving some three or
four hundred blacks in this State the
WIGHT - vote We know not how it NAV
have operated III other portions Of the
State hut in this locality We are satisfied
the outrage question has received less
ALTERNATIVES support than it would have
done. had those radicals pursued differ
ent course Nor has the result been con-
fnej entirely to that question. The en-
tire Union ticket has suffered from their
uncalled for zeal However palatable may
b a medicine, people dislike TO have it
e-ammed down theig Threats by unpr.n i
pied quacks. and it IS not ct all surprising
that many throw it aside who wouId 9TH
ervise receive It as a matter Of prefer
eac5
i the Union ticket of Wisconsin i de-
feated, or elected by reduced majority,
the fault rests more with its profcssed
friends than with the people generally
And SO with the suffrage question We
have not the confidence IN it's success we
should feel, had the agitators and radicals
en- less active than many of them have
shown themselves since the Union State
Convention
We shall probably learn the result IN
the State within day or two
rEu- NlErI IN " LII 81 Snr->n Mr. lohn